My Half Marathon
In one week I’m running my first ever half marathon. I’ve been training since April. Whenever I tell someone about it, I stumble over my words in conversation. Do you ever feel like it’s hard to convey the meaning of something with words? That’s kind of how it is with this. I feel like when I try and tell a friend why and how this half marathon it’s important to me I’m often left feeling like they just don’t get it. The words just aren’t doing the trick for me. I must add that this feeling can very much show more of what’s going on in my mind than theirs. As in, I don’t think that my friends are actually not understanding how important this is to me and why. But that doesn’t change the feeling that significance can be hard to convey with words. So here are some thought out words for my own sake to try and clearly lay out what’s going on in my head and my heart as next week approaches. In my 30th year of life, I lost two babies—Roy and Timmi—and my son, Leo, underwent spinal ...