What I talk about when I talk about - reading notes

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but weather or not you can stand any more is up to you.

I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I had this tendency ever since I was young. I could always think of things to do by my myself. I learned the importance of being with others and the obvious point that we can't survive on our own. But the desire in me to be alone hasn't changed. When I'm alone random memories come to me... and in a way I give time to myself in order to acquire a void. But as you might expect, an occasional thought will slip into this void. People's mind can't be complete blank. Human's beings' emotions are not strong consistent enough to sustain a vacuum.

The thoughts that occur to me are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky as always.

The accumulation of my memories has led to one result: me. And the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Life just isn't fair... some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for, while others can get it without any effort at all.

The most important things that we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at the schools.

In the final analysis we are all the same.

At any rate that's how I started running. Thirty-three - that's how old I was then. Still young enough though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

Nobody is going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. Still, I certainly don't want to keep making the same mistakes over and over. Best to learn from my mistakes and put that lesson into practice the next time around. While I still have the ability to do that.