{"id":1349,"date":"2017-04-14T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:18:43","slug":"it-was-a-good-friday-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"It was a Good Friday, indeed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried for 9 min\/mi again, it did not work out. In fact, I was faster today<\/a>. Not by much, but it’s ok. I think it was mainly due to the heat. I was sweating a lot and did not bring water with me. So I think I just wanted it over with. My arms started cramping; not my legs, my arms. It’s been a very long time since I’ve been completely drenched after a run. But overall, it was good, I worked hard to focus on my form and only toward the end did I really notice some bad things. Turning my arms in definitely being one of my major flaws. So all in all, not bad.
\nThe rest of the day has been spent cleaning, shopping, cooking, and even a little work. I’m trying to get things caught up and set for the big push toward the end of the school year here. It will all be over before I know it, and I want to make sure it’s as smooth and stress-free as possible, so taking a couple hours today to take care of some things was a good idea.
\nMeanwhile, there is one severe drawback to having skin like mine and running long distances in the beautiful, and intense Sun here: my sock and singlet tan-lines are out of control. The rest of the weekend forecast is saying overcast and maybe even rain or thunderstorms on Sunday. It looks like next weekend I will have to take charge of this situation. I’m not too much interested in my looks at all, but I mean this is ridiculous. Shame on me, and drag if you must it’s ok.
\nBut today was definitely a relaxing day, and you need those every now and then. If we don’t relax and enjoy, as messed up as this world is. As Donnie and company are looking to start, literally, World War 3, and all this other mess that’s happening. Corporate bullies treating people like trash. Racist and fascist shitbags spouting their fecal matter all over society, as fucked up as all this is; we all have to take some time for ourselves and enjoy what little we can. Today was definitely that day, to just enjoy what I could. If you’re not smiling at the things you can smile at, then what’s the point of being pissed off about all the bullshit? If you can’t enjoy those little parts, then there’s no sense in any of this.
\nJust like Orange shit-boy there, spending more on the military, bombing the shit out of things with millions upon millions of dollars of ordinance, yet telling us we can’t do the very basic things to make our own area of the world as nice as possible. In fact, telling us we need to pollute it and make it a mess, and forget educating people, or doing anything good, or kind, or nice. What’s the point in all the military mess if we don’t have anything nice at all? I mean, I think we can have very nice things without any military at all, but that’s besides the point. It’s really useless if you have nothing worth “defending” in the first place.
\nI don’t understand how so many people miss this. Life should absolutely be an enjoyable experience, regardless of where you are born, or how you are born, what you look like, who you love, how you dress. We should be allowed to enjoy our lives. Anyone and anything which is hindering our enjoyment, which is not injuring others, is wrong. I’m not saying there isn’t pain in life, and there isn’t bullshit. Bad shit is going to happen. People will get sick and die, natural disasters will devastate areas, the world itself is completely neutral. It neither desires your survival, nor your death, it merely goes about its business. At the end, entropy requires your destruction, but that’s ok. So there will always be pain and some discomfort. My issue is with human beings intentionally adding to one another’s pile of bullshit. I don’t understand that at all. All anyone need do is stop being a fucking jackass. That simple. Yet we applaud jackasses, we watch them on TV and love them, and give them million dollar endorsement deals (the “Cash me ousside girl”) and let them steal the presidency. Yeah I said it, stolen.
\nSo I had a good day today, but still, fuck your economy, fuck your competition, fuck your advertising. Fuck your centuries old ideas and the rotten shit that springs from them. Leave your arrogance and your ignorance aside, stop being offended when people say this shit is broken and needs to be fixed. When someone says they are being hurt by your bullshit, just shut up and listen to them. Don’t get all sore because you’re being called out. Learn something. Check your ego at the door, you’re nothing special, none of us are. I am no better than the very worst person to ever walk the Earth, and I am no worse than the very best. We all have our shit, and we need to leave it behind when we deal with others, and treat everyone like they were…you know…human. Just saying, maybe we should give that a try, given that what we’ve been trying for the last few hundred years hasn’t been working. Even though we keep repackaging it into something slightly more palatable, it still seems to fail miserably. So maybe, actually changing is the way to go? Just a thought.
\nBut in the meantime, I am going to enjoy what I can, and I can only hope for more wonderful days like this. It was an amazing day on so many levels.
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