Yay for friendly competition...

You know, friendly competition isn't really friendly unless you are doing well. Ha. Ironic, huh? Running isn't easy, until one day it is. Money isn't worth anything, until you have some. I'm living life right now in the following way.... faking it, until I make it. Just trying to get by, squeak by, but as times goes on, I realize that I've stopped "faking" it.

A friend of mine is buddhist and one day I asked her, how did you become buddhist? She told me that she just "did". You follow the principles, life your life, and it just "comes to be". There is no initiation, no hazing ceremony, no sacrificing lambs, or even dribbling water over the forehead. There are many times in life when we just "become". We "become" children of our parents, brother or sister to our siblings, friends, girl/boy friends, etc. We fall into roles because they fall onto us. The roles that are even more interesting to me are the ones that we choose in life. I'm always curious how people came to be where they are in their life, what roads they took, what roles they played, how long they had to "fake it" before they made it....

Tonight, I'll be "faking" a 3 -miler at Green Lake while waxing philosophical.... thinking about the day when finally, I'll be a grown-up... and when I'll become a "marathoner" and not just a girl who does some marathons....