We forget sometimes, why we do what we do. It slips our minds how we ended up here. We forget why it's important. We become stuck in these repetitions and forget why we go do it day in and day out. Sometimes we need to take ourselves back to when it all began, and remember why it all began. I can't seem to shake this feeling of confinement lately. Like I'm boxed into split times and workout reps. I'm forgetting to love what I do. I'm forgetting why I love what I do. My brain is all twisted and tangled which is the strangest feeling. Because for all my life the decision to run has been the one thing that has come so easy.

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The last time I blogged was quite a while ago. I've really been meaning to for a long time so here goes... Throughout these last couple years I've learned what it means to fight for what you care about . We go out of the way, pull all sorts of strings, accept the consequences when it involves the people and things we're passionate about. You never really know how much that truly is until you are forced to make the decision to give up or to make it happen no matter how extreme the measures are. I've learned it's good to have things worth fighting with all your heart for. It's good to fall in love with your dreams and maybe even the person you want to share them with. A new part of this lesson I'm just beginning to grasp is that when you truly and compassionately fall in love with with someone or something you will never once look back and regret any of those extreme measures you took to make it happen. So in the end, a lot of it is about risk and going with your gut and trusting your instincts. It's a game of chance, as a lot of things are in life. But you also have to remember that once you know what makes you happy, I mean really through the roof, fourth of July fireworks kind of happy, everything is worth fighting for to fulfill that happiness. So if I could go back to my seventeen year old self and give myself one piece of advice I would say, get to know yourself. Figure out what makes you happy and then invest all you have to make it happen.