Because of the pain, it is precisely because I deliberately experienced this kind of pain that I found my own feeling of being alive, at least partially alive. I now realize that the quality of life is not fixed things such as grades, figures and rankings, but mobile things contained in behavior.
So I started running. Thirty-three years old, my age at that time, was still young, but I couldn't call it "youth". This is the age when Jesus died, and the decline of Scott Fitzgerald began from this age. This may be a watershed in life. At this age, I started my long-distance running career and officially took the position of a novelist-although it was too late.
I don't hate long-distance running at all But I never liked physical education class at school, and those sports games were even more disgusting. They are movements imposed on us from above. "Well, run!" Forcing me to do something I don't like when I don't like it is something I can't stand growing up. On the other hand, if I do what I want to do, I will work harder than others.
One of the runners, since he started running marathons. In every race, I have to review two words that my brother (also a long-distance runner) taught him: pain is inevitable. Pain is optional. This is his truth. Its subtle meaning is difficult to translate correctly, but it is also difficult to translate knowing that it is untranslatable. It might as well be translated as the simplest: "pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional." The key word is this optional. For example, when running, I suddenly feel: "Oh, I'm so tired, I can't." This "tiredness" is an inevitable fact, but whether it is really "no" depends on my own discretion.
Ernest hemingway seems to have said something similar: Perseverance, not disorderly rhythm, is really important for long-term homework. Once the rhythm is set, all the remaining problems can be solved. However, you can't be too careful to make the wheel of inertia rotate at a certain speed accurately and persevere.
It is not particularly important for runners to beat or lose to a specific person in the race. If you become a favourite to win the championship, it will be an important topic to surpass your immediate competitors. However, for ordinary citizen participants, personal victory or defeat is not the main topic. Maybe the motivation to participate in the competition is "I don't want to lose to that boy", which is enough to be the motivation to practice. However, if a competitor cannot participate in the race for some reason, this person's motivation will inevitably disappear or be halved, so he can't persist as a runner for a long time.
In other words, for long-distance runners, whether they can feel proud or something like pride when they finish the race may be the most important.
Since running every day, the pulse has obviously slowed down, indicating that the body is adjusting its pulse in order to adapt to long-distance running. If the pulse is already fast and rises with the increase of running distance, the heart will be overloaded immediately.
10 However, this freedom gradually lost its natural advantages and freshness with age. What was once readily available is not easy to get after a certain age. It's like the speed of a fastball pitcher, which will slow down bit by bit. It is true that the maturity of personality may make up for the decline of talent, just as a fastball pitcher changes his tune at a certain time to change the ball to a brain-based pitch. Of course, this compensation is limited, and we can still feel the faint sadness after losing our advantage.
1 1 Raymont Chandler, an excellent detective novelist, once said in a private letter, "Even if there is nothing to write, I will definitely sit at my desk for several hours every day and concentrate alone." I fully understand his purpose in doing so. By doing so, Chandler can improve the physical strength necessary for professional writers and quietly improve their morale. Such daily training is essential for him.
The loss of 12 is inevitable. No one can win and lose forever. On the highway of life, you can't keep driving in the overtaking lane. However, not wanting to repeat the same failure is another matter. Learn from one failure and apply it to the next opportunity. I will do this while I still have the ability to stick to this lifestyle.
13 muscle is like an animal with a good memory. As long as you pay attention to increasing the load in stages, it can naturally adapt and bear. For example, repeatedly convince muscles: "You must complete these tasks." It will "understand" and its power will gradually increase. Of course it takes time. If you enslave too much, it will fail. However, if you are willing to take the time and step by step, it will have no complaints, only occasionally bitter face, stubbornly obedient and constantly improve its toughness. Through repetition, the memory of "we must do these jobs well" is input into the muscles. Our muscles are very regular. As long as we strictly follow the procedure, there will be no complaints and hatred. If you don't carry a load for several days in a row, the muscles will make their own decisions: "Oh, there is no need to work so hard. Oh, great. " So the endurance limit will be lowered by itself. Muscles, like flesh and blood animals, are willing to live a more comfortable life. If they don't continue to load, they will erase their memories with peace of mind. If you want to re-enter, you have to start from the beginning and repeat the same pattern. Rest is necessary. However, in the imminent and important period of the game, we should seriously issue an ultimatum to Muscle and send it an unambiguous message: "This can't be sloppy at all!" Of course, we can't overload it, but we must keep an unrelenting tension with it.
14 It is precisely because there are all kinds of people that this world is the world. Others have their own values and corresponding living methods, so do I. Such differences have produced subtle differences, and when several differences are combined, they may develop into a big misunderstanding, which makes people criticized for no reason. Being misunderstood and criticized is by no means a pleasant thing, and it may also cause profound trauma to the soul. This is also a painful experience.
As we grow older, we gradually realize that such pain and trauma are actually necessary in life. Come to think of it, it is precisely because people are different from others that they can establish themselves and exist as independent beings forever. As far as I'm concerned, I can stick to writing novels. Only in the same scenery, you can see different scenery, feel different things and choose different sentences, can you write your own story continuously and even create a rare situation. A large number of people hold it in their hands. I am who I am, not others. This is an important asset to me. The damage to the soul is the price that people have to pay to the world for this kind of self-reliance.
16 No matter what you do, once you do it, you must go all out, otherwise you can't feel at ease. I can't flatter myself by entrusting my shop to others at will and hiding somewhere else to write novels. Try your best, or you can let go if you can't do it well. But if you end up in failure because of ambiguity and half-heartedness, the feeling of regret will probably last for a long time.
17 I am a long-distance runner after all. Achievements, rankings, looks, and how others evaluate them are all secondary issues. For a runner like me, the first important thing is to finish the finish line with both feet, so I have no regrets: I have done everything I should and endured everything I should. Learn from those failures and joys, specifically, no matter how trivial. And invest time in years, accumulate such competition one by one, and finally reach a state that you completely accept, or infinitely close. Well, I'm afraid this expression is more appropriate.
18 in the gym I have been to in Tokyo, there is a poster that says, "Muscles are hard to grow and easily disappear. Fat is easy to grow and difficult to disappear. " A boring fact, but it is a fact after all.