Losers are usually those who have only three minutes of enthusiasm, and winners are usually those who have lasted five minutes. (Venerable Nebula quotes)
My morning running experience
For a while, I tried to get up early and run in the morning. At first, I was as confident as most people are. I got up every morning to run without waiting for my alarm clock to go off in the early morning. At that time, it was still light, the street lights were still on, and the path from the street to the park was a bit dark. It’s a little quiet out there, and I occasionally run into breakfast vendors on the street and sanitation workers who get up early to clean up the city.
Of course, the most people you meet on the road come to practice in the morning, say hello to each other, and start running. Indeed, it feels good to be early, to run a few laps in the park every day, then climb to the top of the hill, look down on the city in the morning mist, wake up little by little, and immediately feel the beauty of life.
Beginning to feel the change in myself, I felt like I had been trying to hold on. After a while, I must have been completely different. But it all ended in the morning, maybe just starting to run and exercise too much. I was still up early that morning and as I was running I felt a little pain in my knee, but I kept running and ended up gritting my teeth and taking one step home on the way back.
As a result, my legs were red and swollen the next day, and I couldn’t run in the morning, but I still had to get up early to keep going, just for a few days, ha ha! It’s hard to get up early.” I curled up in bed and listened to the alarm clock ring, but my eyelids were so heavy that I touched the alarm clock and turned off the switch. Especially after the cold weather, the bitter cold outside, like a big mouth, roaring and tearing at your will, taking the warm blanket apart step by step, making you throw up many reasons to slant your eyes one more time and get up in another ten minutes. Doesn’t matter. I’ll be up early tomorrow. But from then on, all previous persistence ends.
Remember reading a few lines from a book: Inertia is like straws, pressing down on you one by one.” You may not feel anything when you press it, and over time, when the last important straw is pressed down, your inner world crumbles. Just like that, you go to bed with a reluctant melancholy and wake up the next day, but still repeat the previous day. You don’t know when to start trying and then turn around and nag. Then I summed up my little experience of running this morning and thought of those words that are currently popular on the internet: you must work hard, but don’t worry about it. So if you do it too fast, the effect will be counterproductive.
The camel story
Let’s think about why camels are called desert ships and why they can walk and run through the desert. The fact is that camels can’t eat for four or five days straight, not only because they store fat on their humps, but also because they can provide the nutrition they need to survive. And it can walk and run, which is actually due to the endurance and daily life it has built up over the years in the desert.
As the saying goes, a minute on stage is a decade away. In fact, we can only see other people’s success once, but we can’t see how much effort and perseverance is hidden behind this day and night. Sometimes, the difference between success and failure is often just one step away. In many cases, we refuse to take that last step because most of the difficulties ahead are exhausting, a small obstacle that makes it difficult for us to stand on our own two feet and causes us to give up on our previous achievements. The truth is, if you bite the bullet, victory is right in front of you.
Bernard Shaw once said, “If you take one more step, you can shorten the distance between success and success.” Victory is ahead of you, and your task is to persevere, that is, to take another step.” There are some things that are not seen as hopeful to be persevered with, but because of perseverance.” Persistence is very important, but it’s hard to keep going.