Wake Up Call

Ever wake up and consider the fact that your life is like walking through concrete all while you are lacing up your cinder block shoes? Worse still have you done it day after day, all the while telling yourself you intend to change it but never really getting beyond the half hearted stage? For three years I have been running the concrete marathon. The sad part is I didn't even know it until a month ago. Sadly, when the world crashed down and broke my shoes, it seemed, for a while to have broken my feet as well, disallowing movement of any kind. In half a moment, I realized that for three years my whole life had been based on lies. I lived with a man who probably never told me one true thing, and I believed every word of it!

Today I train for real marathons, not virtual or imagined ones. Sometimes I wonder if I am only running away from lies and deceit but I don't think it matters. I'm not a sprinter, I'm a distance runner and I won't try and lag back at a slower pace any longer. With every hill in my training, I grow stronger and the past grows smaller. This will be my place to embrace the hills. Sometimes they are damn hard to get over!