If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

And what I think is thatwhen you__e completely aloneand deep inside yourselfwith feelings no one else can understand,there really aren__ a hundred places to go. It__ like if I woke up one dayand looked outside and saw purple treesand red grass and green dogs,is there anyone I could tell who would understand? No.There__ be no one.It__ exactly like that. He saw purple treesand red grass and green dogswhile no one else did. _ And maybe, he just got tiredof seeing them.

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.