"Blind Runner”
Sometimes while focusing on our goals and missions to BE more and HAVE more, we can often lose sight of what we already ARE and HAVE.
This has been happening to me lately.
Not that I am unhappy with who I am or what I have, or even that I am ungrateful.
It’s just that, often I get so laser focused on the future that I forget to be grateful and just stop for a moment to appreciate life.
Every now and then I need a little reminder, and sometimes that reminder comes with a subtle nudge.
Yesterday morning we were at an obstacle course race for Camden.
He is in a league of elementary school students that meet up a couple Saturdays a month to run the race.
Even though it is considered a “league”, the setting is pretty casual.
Parents are allowed on the course to follow, cheer, and take photos of their kids.
As usual, we were doing the same. Following him around the course as he, ran up this, jumped off that, rolled under this.
As I was watching some of the other competitors I noticed a little girl, probably about 3rd grade. Het mother was walking very close to her, even holding her hand.
I thought, maybe her daughter was scared or nervous, but as I continued to watch her, her head was held high and had a smile that could light up the day.
There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with her.
I didn’t put much more thought into it at that time.
A few minutes after the race had finished, I saw this little girl again.
This time she was petting a puppy.
And that is when I got my subtle reminder to be grateful.
While petting the puppy, her face was still lit up but she wasn’t looking AT the puppy, she was looking PAST it.
A moment later she stood up to walk away, the back of her shirt read…
“Blind Runner"
