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i'm tired this morning. more than normal...

last night we put the finishing touches on my statement of purpose. robin and i are a pretty good team, with writing and in general. we balance each other out, and i need a lot of balancing.

7 miles last night and a lot of thinking. i was sad all day from that goofy book, so i did the logical thing and read the next chapter before my run. this made me feel a little better, and it sparked a lot of thoughts on my run. thoughts about the inevitability's of life, the fact that our finite time here is ever decreasing, so on and so forth.

this book has made me appreciate my meat headed dog a little more. i was really starting to resent the guy, but he is just being a dog. actually, we should probably model our lives a little more like his. he's excited when the people he loves come home, he likes to run (and run and run) and will do it at any opportunity regardless of how tired he may be, and he pursues his passions in life with wreck less abandon, regardless of the cost.

seems like a good way to live.

Comments

Anonymous said…
it's a lot easier to live with reckless abandon when you know you don't often have to suffer the consequences. aaaahhhhh.....to be a dog.

scooter
andyH. said…
oh, he suffers the consequences. i just mean that he doesn't do things at anything other than 100% effort. it's frustrating as hell for us, but still kind of neat when you think about it.

to literally say we should live life like dogs isn't what i'm saying. it's more a metaphor...for family, work, athletics...i know i'm guilty of not always giving it my all.

as a side note, why do people refer to not giving your all as 'dogging' it? doesn't make sense when you think about it...
ScootsOnMoots said…
i think they're referring to the dogs we see in mexico or surely the one's in bali. those dogs lay around during the most productive daylight hours and only come out at night when the miller lite sign comes on.

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