stock-taking

i ran 4km today!

not a very impressive number to many, but it is no less than a miracle for me. i had always struggled with the 1.6km and 2.4km during NAPFA in school. i like sprinting and i like walking long distances, but running long (anything above 800m is, or was, long for me) had always been a great struggle.

i used to fear the track. i used to dread PE lessons to the extent that i would feel cold while sitting on the grandstand, waiting for the teacher to announce the mileage for the day and chivvy us to the track. i wasn't adverse to sports. it was just running that really put me off.

but now i am in love with it (:

with each step, i affirm that it is time for action, and not for dreams. it is the time to be who i want to be, and not to imagine who i could be. the mental realm has been my recluse and place of solace for too long. if i want my life back, i have to get back to and fight with reality again.

a quote from the patek phillipe exhibition at st regis is on my mind - workmanship is being committed to an ideal.


i will not settle for less.