Jogging priorities... literally :-)

Today being Gauri Visarjan came home relatively earlier.. and rain gods seem to have exhausted their water supplies, so had a brilliant chance to go for a job.. and so i did..

i dont get too much time to jog in the open, it's usually on the treadmill..but whenever it is i jog at five gardens..Favourite music and fewer people on the streets made me more enthu..

i was alternating between jogging and running..i jog really fast and then slower down my pace for a lap making it a brisk walk to avoid panting..

i did not realise why i was doing that until this group of gujarati aunties came behind me and were all set to walk pass me..

that's all, i got an ego pucnh on my face! i spoke to myself "how can i let them walk ahead of me" & there i derived self-motivation & started running, faster than i usually do, ran 2 laps ahead of them and maintained my pace then..

Since then i started keeping 'men/women' walking way ahead of me as targets, and i used to run faster thinking i have to beat them..

Not only i started running faster, it helped me achieve a better timing and got the satisfaction of reaching 'faster' than others..

In my 8th round, i got a call from my sister, i immediately picked up the phone and started walking at a normal pace.. & became oblivious to my surroundings.. i chatted incessantly with her.. laughing, gossiping forgetting what i was doing before she had called..

Not realising i intended to keep myself out of competition and did not bother.. suddenly my rivals weren't important, what was important was my conversation with someone important..

When we hung up, i was back in the race, keeping the 'whoever' aunties ahead of me as my targets.. and ran towards my goal..and Damm i did beat every aunty ahead of me! (over smart aunties!! :P)

Life, similarly gives us everydaya chance to compete.. with ourselves, with rival agencies pitching, with colleagues, for students during exams.. so on and so forth..

But there are certain people/parts in our life which we need to keep before work/clients/ presentations/commitments..

Those people who have made us..those people who have stood by us.. be it friends/family/fiance/ neice/ nephew.. could be anyone..

it's important to have someone for whom the competition does not matter..your winning does not define you.. coz for them you already are a winner :-)

It's important to know when to exit out of the rat race, and when to re-enter..

Cheers to the people who trouble us during those very busy days, just to say 'hey i miss you' / 'oye busy hai kya?' / 'just called to say hiii' / 'had lunch?' .... its only coz YOU are an important part of their life.. and they remove time for you.. whom do you remove time for? do you?... time to ponder..

Coz, at the end of the day, if you're running too fast.. you never know you might just be running alone..

To end it with one of my favs -

What is this life, if full of care..

We have no time to stand & stare..