LIFE is for many a race.  If you think that could be applied to the way you perceive LIFE, I wonder if you have the mind, the focus, the dedication it takes for any type you may think you are.  In fact, I think we all are chasing after something.  However, I would  have to say of my own life that I've lived the life of a "sprinter" while in truth I am of the "long distance" brand; and, that does not bode well.

To pull out the real strength, patience, clear eyed vision of the long distance runner requires a whole different training regime, than that of the sprinter; and, all of it significantly cased.  When you find yourself sputtering like a car out of gas, ask yourself what is needed to make it to your destination.  We all have at our core, a seed that will one day bloom -- some blooms happen only once in every hundred years.  There's a plethora of other seeds, plants that open their secrets soon after planting, not needing the care of a fragile orchid, the time consuming continual checking to see that all is well within its confines.   Changing the care on either will bring about the failure of the plant to become what was intended from that well planted seed. 

Know yourself, know what YOU are and what you need and want from this life to run your race to the perfected winning stage expected when your seed was planted.  Knowing when you've gone too far or not far enough is imperative and this is done by viewing the differing vital forces as they reach each plateau, shed that stage and go on to the next.   Of all the opportunities you have in life, the one most capable of creating a successful, healthy, prosperous, happy  you is the one you are looking for all along the way.  Sad, so sad to come to the end of that seed's journey  never knowing the beauty,  remarkable, vivid range that it has come through to BE as it was meant to be.  The unnecessary waste of a one of a kind blooming.  The Journey -- your Journey -- will one day also come, perhaps suddenly, unexpectedly, or perhaps your body will not want to let go and begin another Journey (none of us knows where that will be found or where it will take us); and, knowing that, begin by knowing who you are and not letting anyone or anything stand in  your  way to reach the vital promise that was hidden until (according to its nature)  the break from ordinary tore away the shell protecting the truly indescribable beauty, scent or bulb, leaf or tree of all that was meant to be.

 Do not let yourself be misled because you were confused and conflicted as to who or what you have to give in this LIFE.   Who are you?  The long distance runner or the sprinter?  Both are magnificent and win many accolades.  The long distance runner has to wait and watch the glory showered on the sprinter, the prizes, the compliments; and, know that year after year, as long as is necessary, this runner will do the necessary -- deny themselves, raise their energies slowly and hold back the desire to go all out and boast...they may not have won the deeply desired, but be lonely satisfied with their second place status--all through their lives.  There is a life to be lived, fulfilled and precious as you wait at the gate --- like that thoroughbred horse.   That horse knows what it is here to do and they will even give their life -- if necessary -- in the forging of its fate:  Born to Win.   That is the horse I always ride.

~rumorsofme~