Reality Check
Monday, October 4, 2010 at 03:26PM Running faster than a speeding bullet. Writing with more power than a locomotive.
In my fantasy world, that's how this one month update to my personal running-and-writing quest would have begun.
In the real world, it goes more like this...
Running faster than a trotting turkey. Writing with more power than a loco burro (translated: crazy donkey).
In all seriousness, I thought this quest would go better than it has. I started it with what I considered realistic ambitions. I knew I wouldn't be able to run every day and write every day. But I at least thought I would be able to keep up a strong, steady pace. And I did. For the first three weeks.
Then the reality check came. We took a short trip to Orlando to hang with Mickey, Goofy and those pesky Florida love bugs. That knocked out four days. But I tried to make up for that with extra running and writing leading up to those four days. What I didn't count on was coming back sick.
Ah, there it is...the reality check.
Early on in this quest, I foolishly wrote that one can always make time for the things one really wants to do. You just have to make those things a priority.
What I failed to account for in this equation is that things happen to get in the way of our priorities. It can be your job demands. It can be your family demands. Or it can be sickness.
When you're sick, it's hard to do much of anything, other than lie in bed and feel sorry for yourself. It's hard to think. It's hard to even move.
I'm fortunate, though. The kind of sickness I have isn't the kind that will be around forever. I'll get better and I'll get back to that quest. Hopefully sooner than later. Because if I don't, the $300 I just spent at Dick's Sporting Goods on fall running wear will be a real waste of money.
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