Plunging into the unknown can take you to places you would never imagine you could reach.<\/em><\/p>\nDuring this journey I have found strength to live, the ability to love, the enthusiasm to smile and the resilience to endure.<\/p>\n
For the first time I asked myself what do I want to do.<\/p>\n
For the first time I thought of myself as an individual.<\/p>\n
A person with my own identity. not one created by a relation or a label.<\/p>\n
As I fly back I realise that Boston wasn’t just a goal. It was not only<\/em> a race that I had to qualify for and run. It actually was a life lesson. Life 101. A process where I would test myself to find out whether I had the ability to handle the pain, to live with discomfort, to willingly suffer.<\/p>\n\n“The only antidote to mental pain is physical pain<\/em>.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -Karl Marx<\/p>\n
I am an example.<\/p>\n
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