My friend Steph reminded me of this sentence I wrote in my book ‘running to learn’ – ‘my body and my soul were at ease in Africa, the heat was wonderful and I was usually naked..’ and tomorrow I am returning to Africa. I wonder if my body and soul will remember? I know I will love the heat , I imagine am unlikely to be running around naked as I was only little when I was last there!
I do remember the freedom, I am not sure how I remember it or what form it took but is something I always feel that brought home with me, even though it took me many years to accept who I was and stop trying to be what I thought my Dad wanted me to be! It took time to understand and celebrate the choices I wanted to make and of how wanted to live. Within me always lay the desire to push the boundaries and of course to keep running and running. When it seemed my friends were ‘growing up’ and ‘settling down’ I was still drawn to running and the learning and soul growth that came within my running steps.
So, I am off tomorrow to run with Chris www.hearourvoicekenya.com to return to the land of my birth and do what I was born to do.
‘If you run then become running not the runner, if you can simply run without the runner being there, That running becomes Zen; it becomes meditative, Just run and let the running take you wherever it wants to’ Osho
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