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What Are We Running Towards?
<p>Last night, I had a dream.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was running.</p><p><br/></p><p>Running from something.</p><p><br/></p><p>Running towards something.</p><p><br/></p><p>The strange part wasn't the dream.</p><p><br/></p><p>It was waking up and realizing...</p><p><br/></p><p>I couldn't remember what either of them were.</p><p><br/></p><p>I couldn't remember what was chasing me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I couldn't remember what I was trying so desperately to reach.</p><p><br/></p><p>And somehow...</p><p><br/></p><p>that felt familiar.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because isn't that just life?</p><p><br/></p><p>We're all running.</p><p><br/></p><p>Running from failure.</p><p><br/></p><p>Running from our past.</p><p><br/></p><p>Running from loneliness.</p><p><br/></p><p>Running from becoming someone we promised we'd never be.</p><p><br/></p><p>At the same time...</p><p><br/></p><p>we're chasing something.</p><p><br/></p><p>Success.</p><p><br/></p><p>Love.</p><p><br/></p><p>Peace.</p><p><br/></p><p>Purpose.</p><p><br/></p><p>A version of ourselves we've convinced ourselves exists somewhere ahead of us.</p><p><br/></p><p>It's funny.</p><p><br/></p><p>Most of us don't even stop to ask why.</p><p><br/></p><p>We just run because everyone else is.</p><p><br/></p><p>Wake up.</p><p><br/></p><p>Move.</p><p><br/></p><p>Work.</p><p><br/></p><p>Study.</p><p><br/></p><p>Build.</p><p><br/></p><p>Repeat.</p><p><br/></p><p>As if standing still for a moment would somehow make life leave us behind.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes I wonder...</p><p><br/></p><p>if the thing we're running from</p><p><br/></p><p>and the thing we're chasing</p><p><br/></p><p>are actually the same thing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe we're chasing peace because we're running from chaos.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe we're chasing love because we're running from loneliness.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe we're chasing purpose because we're terrified that there isn't one.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or maybe...</p><p><br/></p><p>we've been running for so long</p><p><br/></p><p>that we've forgotten where the race even started.</p><p><br/></p><p>The dream ended before I found what I was looking for.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or maybe I did.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe waking up was the answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because life isn't always about reaching something.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes it's realizing you've spent years sprinting without ever asking yourself if the direction was yours...</p><p><br/></p><p>or simply inherited from everyone else.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that's why we're so tired.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because life is hard—</p><p><br/></p><p>but because we're constantly running.</p><p><br/></p><p>From something.</p><p><br/></p><p>Towards something.</p><p><br/></p><p>And for most of us...</p><p><br/></p><p>we'll never remember exactly what either of them were.</p>
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