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11 Miles (and a Lifetime) Later
I've run 11 miles since Monday. My right knee is killing me. I iced it for a while tonight and I'm going to take a hot bath, but it's definitely paining. The goal is to run every day until Monday and to go 2.2 miles every time. I'm hoping to make it - and will unless the knee swells up or something.
I forgot to do a recap of exercise for the week before this one. I'll try and do that tomorrow or Sunday and get all caught up for my own recollection, but I'm still going through the 90 Days. According to the scale, I was down some this morning, but I don't know.
Although I did get a wolf whistle earlier while I was running. It scared the crap out of me, because I was a million miles away, but then it was amusing.
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I have seen quite a few posts on my flist about the "It Gets Better" Campaign. And then, suddenly, I'm seeing quite a few posts disagreeing with the campaign.
I'm... a bit concerned and my concern is leading me to override the little voice in my head telling me to butt out, because my experiences weren't based on bullying for being gay and I don't have a voice and etc. etc. etc.
But... then I can't help myself, because this campaign is not aimed at adults. It is aimed at kids. Specifically, it is aimed at kids who are on the verge of killing themselves rather than go a single day longer in the world that they think is the whole of everything.
So, yes, I agree that the campaign ignores the cold hard facts of reality to some degree. Not everyone finds happiness and content-ness. More importantly, not everyone finds a safe space. But, I don't think that's what the campaign promises.
It talks about a future that is different than the present - and it is talking to kids. Kids who have no choices at all about where they live or who they associate with. I'm not saying that adults have easy choices, but as adults we do have choices.
My biggest fear is that someone who is holding a noose in one hand and hesitates because they have the hope that "it gets better" will see and find the comments written by people who are (justifiably, even) bitter and jaded, but because of the vast differences in experience between a child and an adult, will choose to take drastic and final action.
I don't know if I've said this very well, but at the end of the day, life isn't easy. It isn't. It isn't easy for anyone. I learned a long time ago that the people who seem to have it the best usually have the deepest closets filled with the most skeletons. But when you reach the age where you can make decisions for yourself, you have a chance to make life what you want it to be.
I'm not saying you'll succeed. I am saying that you have a chance. And I'm saying that you should give yourself that chance. Because - for a lot of people who don't fit the molds where they grow up - it does get better when you have the chance to make changes.
I forgot to do a recap of exercise for the week before this one. I'll try and do that tomorrow or Sunday and get all caught up for my own recollection, but I'm still going through the 90 Days. According to the scale, I was down some this morning, but I don't know.
Although I did get a wolf whistle earlier while I was running. It scared the crap out of me, because I was a million miles away, but then it was amusing.
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I have seen quite a few posts on my flist about the "It Gets Better" Campaign. And then, suddenly, I'm seeing quite a few posts disagreeing with the campaign.
I'm... a bit concerned and my concern is leading me to override the little voice in my head telling me to butt out, because my experiences weren't based on bullying for being gay and I don't have a voice and etc. etc. etc.
But... then I can't help myself, because this campaign is not aimed at adults. It is aimed at kids. Specifically, it is aimed at kids who are on the verge of killing themselves rather than go a single day longer in the world that they think is the whole of everything.
So, yes, I agree that the campaign ignores the cold hard facts of reality to some degree. Not everyone finds happiness and content-ness. More importantly, not everyone finds a safe space. But, I don't think that's what the campaign promises.
It talks about a future that is different than the present - and it is talking to kids. Kids who have no choices at all about where they live or who they associate with. I'm not saying that adults have easy choices, but as adults we do have choices.
My biggest fear is that someone who is holding a noose in one hand and hesitates because they have the hope that "it gets better" will see and find the comments written by people who are (justifiably, even) bitter and jaded, but because of the vast differences in experience between a child and an adult, will choose to take drastic and final action.
I don't know if I've said this very well, but at the end of the day, life isn't easy. It isn't. It isn't easy for anyone. I learned a long time ago that the people who seem to have it the best usually have the deepest closets filled with the most skeletons. But when you reach the age where you can make decisions for yourself, you have a chance to make life what you want it to be.
I'm not saying you'll succeed. I am saying that you have a chance. And I'm saying that you should give yourself that chance. Because - for a lot of people who don't fit the molds where they grow up - it does get better when you have the chance to make changes.
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I figured it was a sign that I should say that it worries me how your knee always hurts after you've been running. Have you had a doctor look at it? I would hate to think that you might be doing yourself an injury in the course of doing yourself so much good!
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They're in decent shape, but they'll never be in good shape again.
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