The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that__ why I__e put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I__ no great runner, by any means. I__ at an ordinary _ or perhaps more like mediocre _ level. But that__ not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that__ why I__e put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I__ no great runner, by any means. I__ at an ordinary _ or perhaps more like mediocre _ level. But that__ not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
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