Today, I felt free

I often write about running because it is a pastime of mine. I often ask people to run with me because I wish to share the euphoria that it brings me. I don't do drugs and I don't really like to drink but when I run I feel high, it's my addiction. If I can get past the point where it hurts, where my lungs are collapsing in and my shoulders cramp up then I can breathe through the pain. I can start to relieve all the hurt in my heart and become free and every bit of bitterness, anger, pain and frustration melts away. The harder I run the harder it is for the cynicism and fear to come back into my heart. As the golden leaves reflect their sparkle in my eyes and I feel the beat of the music carry me forward and move my feet, I feel free. It's like you can't touch me if you tried and its no longer me in a chaotic world, it is me at one with a beautiful world. It is in these moments that I want to take you on a run with me. We won't talk, we may not even see each other there but we will run and we will feel free and we will let it all go. It won't matter what happened and where we've been, it won't even matter where we go. We will just be free. And it doesn't matter if the moment we stop the pain and the bitterness crashes down on us because we had a moment of insurmountable glory. We were free. Today, I felt free, I felt rejuvenated by the beautiful Colorado fall and all the stresses I woke up with seem manageable.

Today, I was free.