{"id":305,"date":"2019-12-15T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monicajwilliams.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/15\/running-for-my-life\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T22:59:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:59:11","slug":"running-for-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monicajwilliams.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/15\/running-for-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Running for my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I\u2019ve been meditating lately. Sometimes during my sessions, a particularly vivid image and storyline leads me to unexpected insights into my present emotional state. This\u00a0story-poem came from one of those recent sessions. I want to preface this post by saying that I\u2019m worried that\u00a0it may at times be misinterpreted as being about suicide. I did not write this post with any suicidal thoughts or intentions; instead, it\u2019s about choosing life, choosing to curiously explore and observe my anxiety, and realizing the power I have to choose the role that my anxiety plays in my life. Although I\u2019m not always in a mental state to act on the choices I have, knowing that I have choices is a great comfort. If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, please tell someone immediately. You can contact the<a href=\"https:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\"> National Suicide Prevention Lifeline<\/a> at 1-800-273-8255.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A mouse runs on a treadmill.<br \/>Frantic. Trying to keep up.<br \/>\u201cRun! Faster! Don\u2019t stop or&hellip;\u201d<br \/>Or what?\u00a0<br \/>He must keep running.<br \/>Faster, faster, until he\u2019s barely holding on.<\/p>\n<p>The invisible taskmaster keeps upping the speed.<br \/>The whirr of the treadmill makes it sound like it\u2019ll implode at any minute.<br \/>The mouse runs faster.<br \/>Sprints for his life.<br \/>To stop is certain death.<br \/>He must keep going.<br \/>To stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>This is a life-or-death situation.<br \/>\u201cPlease, just let me stop. My legs, my body is so tired.\u201d<br \/>But the mouse doesn\u2019t have time to think because he must keep going.<br \/>He must concentrate on the band slipping away underneath him. If he stops to think his feet will get tangled and the whole juggling act will come tumbling down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He must keep going.<br \/>Until the treadmill slows.<\/p>\n<p>But it won\u2019t.<br \/>It just keeps going.<br \/>Faster and faster until he\u2019s sure he can\u2019t hold on.\u00a0He\u2019ll slip off the back and it\u2019ll be done.<br \/>He doesn\u2019t want that.<br \/>He wants to live!<\/p>\n<p>Run!<br \/>Run!<br \/>Faster!<br \/>Fasterfasterfaster.<\/p>\n<p>He never falls off,\u00a0<br \/>Always keeps up.<br \/>But it\u2019s no consolation.<br \/>He must concentrate on now. Get through this second and the next and the next.<\/p>\n<p>Why is someone doing this to him?<br \/>Why does he have to keep runningrunningrunning?<\/p>\n<p>That frantic feeling.<br \/>When all I can do is go, go, go.<br \/>The fear propels me.<br \/>Fear of not keeping up.<br \/>Knowledge that I am keeping up, but fear that it\u2019ll all come crashing down at any moment.<br \/>If I stop, the machine will spit me off the back and I will have failed.<br \/>I\u2019ll have to watch everyone else sprint past me while I&hellip;<br \/>Helpless. Admit that I\u2019m not as good. 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