Marathon of Life

The Marathon of Life means to align your desires in such a way that every action and inaction, accomplishment and setback, propels you towards the fulfillment of your life purpose, towards making the world a better place, towards setting an example for others, towards the ultimate dream that your talents were meant to help you achieve. Whether an avid runner or not, life is a race, and even at this very moment, you are running either the Marathon of Life or the Race of Desires. If unsure of the direction of your pursuit, ask a mature person who you have made comfortable enough to give you honest feedback. Like Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

Those who are in constant pursuit of the selfish desires that continue to wreck the lives, health and relationships of others would, sooner or later, pitiably succeed in placing themselves amongst the people who left more vacuums in this world by passing on without having fulfilled their life purpose. Every one of us is equipped to fulfill his or her part in this world, and shying away from our responsibilities to humanity, whether out of fear, laziness, pride or selfishness, is running the Race of Desires rather than the Marathon of Life. Long life has more to do with the quality of life lived than the length; it has more to do with the number of lives impacted than the age at death. A man may die young and yet celebrated as Methuselah was, while another may die at 100 years old and yet had not impacted enough lives to fill the pews at his funeral. If you are not living your life in such a way that you would gladly live it all over again, what are you waiting for?

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