i tried
i really tried not to hate fall this year.
i tried to pick pretty leaves each day that i ran in the brisk (albeit) dark mornings.
i tried to push sad and negative thoughts out of my mind and my heart when the cold gloominess started having its way with me.
but i can't get warm.
i'm wet from the rain.
i am miserable from a cold i caught.
i'm going to be less than my best for the 5K for which I've trained so hard.
i'm sad.
i tried, but i failed.
i tried to pick pretty leaves each day that i ran in the brisk (albeit) dark mornings.
i tried to push sad and negative thoughts out of my mind and my heart when the cold gloominess started having its way with me.
but i can't get warm.
i'm wet from the rain.
i am miserable from a cold i caught.
i'm going to be less than my best for the 5K for which I've trained so hard.
i'm sad.
i tried, but i failed.
posted by Kathleen Ryan at 1:28 PM
5 Comments:
How on earth can you say that you failed when you've succeeded in so many ways, not the least in just getting up at that wonderful hour and actually doing it?
thank you nice anonymous person. :)
i shouldn't blog on bad days. i do however think i have failed at not hating fall.
True, blogging on damp, wet, fall days does not lend oneself to the most uplifting of reflective thoughts. Apparently though it lends myself to big words. What is needed is a fireplace (with a nice crackling fire (and of course a sturdy cover to keep J from falling in)), a good book and a nice hot apple toddy.
But when you get up this Sunday morning, the sun will be shinning and the weather may be crisp, but not cold, and you WILL run despite your stuffy nose, and you WILL finish the race and cross the line as those that love you watch you do so, on a day in the FALL, that you will remember forever and be proud of. You may not love FALL, but it loves you and so do I!
Aw, Laura. I just read this now. Thanks so much!
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