digital sarah art joy

why you should run

~ 1 minute to read

so you can witness the gray sky falling into the gray sidewalk and wonder at its cracks, at the thin tendrils of baby green reaching for you as you beat against the ground; so you can grow weak as your thoughts dissolve into the rhythm of tree, tree, mailbox, driveway and your breath no longer belongs to you, but to the concrete; so you can memorize the life cycle of your neighborhood trees, when they lose their leaves, when they start to bud, when they gain a new scar, when they grow jealous of the roses; so you can mentally prepare yourself for whatever monotony threatens your day, so you can collect the greens and grays and ask your muscles to ache just enough to distract you; so you can find the path that leads you away from your fears and into the darkness of your hope; so you can learn to count from inside your body, not your brain; so you can learn to lean forward from inside your body, not your brain; so you can learn to be from inside your body, not your brain

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