Helloo0O Ladies
and Gentlemen!
Welcome back to Graceland Ontario, your one stop location for success advice from the greats. Today, we’re going to talk about living in a world of ironies.
As many of
you’ve probably heard by now, tragedy struck at the legendary Boston Marathon
yesterday, with two explosions leaving three dead and 170 wounded. Out of those who survived,
many lost limbs. To enter for Boston you have to keep within strict acceptance
times recorded by doing well in another, Boston-certified marathon. For those
of you who don’t know, a marathon is roughly 26.2 miles, or 42 kilometres. For a
male in my age group, these people would have to be running that distance in roughly
three hours to get in.
So, we have
some of the best runners in the world, people who’ve already fought through one
hell of a race to get into this one, and now they’re in hospital with an
amputated leg.
It’s probably
easier winning roulette than it is guessing life’s next move. We never know
what’s going to happen. People who run Boston are doing something special, something
they know other runners will be jealous of. It may not be the nicest marathon
in the world, but it is one of the oldest and most popular. And that attracts
people to run it as a goal, a summit in their running career.
Yet, yesterday,
for some it was the end of their careers in general.
Waking up most
mornings gives us the impression that we’ll wake up every morning, that
everyday we’ll get a chance at living the perfect day. But one day, you’re not
going to wake up. It could be in bed or, as happened at the Boston Marathon
this year, surmounting one of your loftiest goals.
Make sure
you’re doing what you want to do, that you’re enjoying your life. Pursue the
goals that you want to achieve and make sure not to throw time away.
You never know
when you’re going to run out of it.
I don’t know
about you but, though I send my condolences to the casualties of yesterday’s
Boston Marathon, I envy them just a bit. After all, they did something most
never will.
They got a
chance to die achieving their dream. And that’s a heck of a lot better than
never getting a chance at all.
Talk to you
next week!
Alex H.
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