Reflections at 29

Next month I will be thirty years old and I ask myself what do I have to show for it. Am I where I imagined I would be when I was younger? Safe to say that everyone at one point or another faces this question. How one chooses to address it however can run the gamut from a personal awakening to an oncoming mid-life crisis. Perhaps I am not far along enough yet to be at the mid-life crisis stage however which is very reassuring. So what is my answer you ask? Well, simply put: I am happy where I am.

I remember being seventeen and thinking that I would like to be married and have a graduate degree at age twenty-seven. Needless to say twenty-seven has come and gone and I simply have no regrets about it. I am as I was then unmarried and unfinished in my education but I am actively following my dreams. Events in the past few weeks have veered me away from my running but by minimizing said distractions I can feel myself getting back in form.

Next month’s S2S is postponed but not canceled; such is life I guess. We don’t get what we want when we want but it comes if we hope, dream and persevere. I am in the meantime preparing for my certifications and part time work as a trainer. More and more I meet people who I encourage and encourage me in the process. Family and friends are in good health, work is still work and lastly I have met someone who shares my love of running. All of these have culminated in the realization that I at the age of twenty-nine stand with a whole world at my hands. It is I who control my fate and destiny and with that said I look forward to being thirty and to the new places that my thirst for running will take me. KeepRunning!