I believe we take birth for two reasons –

• To touch lives of others and make this world a beautiful place in our own little way
• To allow this world to touch us so that we learn our own life lessons and become beautiful inside out.

Since we don’t learn everything to perfection the very first time, the life lessons keep repeating themselves – till we learn them right in theory and then, till we master them practically.

We all have our own unique set of life lessons to learn. But it is still good to learn from those that others have had. So here are a few lessons I have learnt and am still learning, have mastered (hopefully) and am still practicing …

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I thought of doing this run every day rather than every alternate day as suggested. This is natural. You find you are good at something, you want to do more of it.

And then when you have a worthy goal, you are ready to push and bear anything. You just want to reach your goal … faster.

Bad idea. At the fifth run, my knee started complaining. I did complete the run but with some difficulty. My knee became a cause of concern.

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[...] As each running day went by, I realized that running is more than just a physical activity. For completing each run I have to use principles of living. Sometimes I learn from my runs some important lessons on living as well. Soon lessons on running better started influencing my life and lessons on living better started influencing my runs. To the point that I realized they both are the same – lessons on running or lessons on living … same thing. [...]

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