Turning Off My Brain...

So, it’s been a while since I’ve written… I used to write of the challenges I faced training for half and full marathons. When I took a hiatus from those, I figured I had nothing to write about. Turns out there is always something to write about, it just depends on how much of yourself you want to share. Marathon training for me was hard and therefore easy to write about. It didn’t seem personal, but it was. Sharing the things that cause you great challenge is personal, regardless of what “thing” it is!

I’m inspired to write about this weekend.

The one for which I turned off my brain.

For three days!

Three.Whole.Days.!!!

What happens when you turn off your brain?

Well first of all, you sleep.

A lot.

Full nights. Interrupted only by squirrels and birds.

It’s true!

You have vivid dreams.

You wake feeling good.

Really good.

You say “yes” a lot.

“Wanna go… yes!”

You have fun!

You laugh!

You roll with the punches.

Your body responds.

Muscles that are locked tight start to give.

It’s actually weird and somewhat painful to feel a series of knots unravel.

But so worth it!

You eat.

Right and wrong.

To this your body also responds.

That’s not quite so good ;oP

You realize that everything that was important to you on Friday is still important.

And it still survived.

Even though you didn’t exhaust yourself to make it happen.

Tomorrow is the return to reality.

Except I’m going to remind my brain every day that really, my life is full of “get to’s, ” not “have to’s.”

I get to work out with a trainer that has far too much patience for me.

I get to have lunch with my mom and take her shopping.

I get to go a job where I get to work hard and I get to laugh and I get to test my patience.

Okay that last one is really hard. Really really hard.

Patience.

That’s another post for another time…

For now, I’m going to go back to not braining for a few last weekend hours!!

You should try it…