Who Has the Runs?
I was fortunate to be interviewed by the good people at Who Has The Runs. Here is the link to the full article: Alex R has the runs: He may not be fast, but he has a big mouth.
Answering the questions made me slow down (something rare) to really think about the stories behind my answers. With every new person I meet and talk about running, I realize that I’m not giving the full story. Even as I try and put down all of my thoughts into a book, I find that I’m going on more tangents with other stories. It’s as though as I unlock one thought, 3 stories are discovered that I had misplaced.
Last week I made the comment that I seem to be forgetting more then I remember lately. When I Google to see what my issue may be, I receive advice ranging from it’s normal to go see a doctor. Not very helpful. I have been trying to put my finger on why I seem to be challenge with remembering details about growing up, high school, and college. It couldn’t have all been that plain and uneventful. There’s no reason to suppress any of the memories as I’m well aware every step of the journey makes us who we are today. The good and the bad.
I’ve not made this a focus of my running, but over the next month I am going to set a goal to think more about forgotten memories. Sounds pretty weird? Remember forgotten memories. How do you remember something you don’t know what to remember? Where do you start? That’s like saying to remember to buy the milk when you don’t ever remember putting it on your list … or even knowing that you had a list to begin with.
Maybe it’s selective hearing coming back from when I was 2 years old. Possibly my brain is wired differently (or is shorting out). There are days it feels like all synapses are firing and when I find a way to re-light them, the wires get re-done so I have to start over.
The biggest factor I see contributing to all of this could be stress. I’ve done a really good job removing the stress from my mind over the past month. Even through a layoff, finding new work I really enjoy, some running, and ever changing schedule, I’ve been pretty easy going throughout it all. Quite possibly, this is why I’m starting to recognize that there are things I’ve forgotten and it’s starting to come back.
Dwelling on this could really cause me stress, but I guess there’s a good chance I would forgot about it.
Feel like am always doing too much or have jammed pack days that I’m just not capable of remembering it all anymore! Who knows….I guess I never would have thought to google that!