Every Day and Hour

For tomorrow: Pursue the endless path.

The more I run, the more I realize that it is no longer about the miles. Achieving mile goals is what kept me running early on, but now I'm starting to see the experience as a continuum -- quite literally, an endless path.

I've never really felt that running would lead to some sort of enlightened state of being, even though it is a profoundly spiritual pursuit. One of my literary heroes, Jorge Luis Borges, writes that we will never truly be finished becoming who we are:

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

The hope we have is not in reaching our goal; it is in experiencing the aesthetic beauty of the here and now that is textured anew from moment to moment. As Borges writes,

...every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Happy Birthday, Sr. Borges!