I was feeling very tired at work earlier today because of the usual busy-ness and I feel like I caught a cold. But decided to complete this week’s streak with a chill-no-pressure recovery run to sweat away the day and feel warmer!
Completed an almost 3km walk (warm-up and cooldown) + 5km recovery run. Better overall pace today than yesterday with best pace at 5:03 today. Getting there!
I was thinking about a conversation with a friend yesterday during this run. She was sharing about some recent experiences about trust (and/or the lack if it).
We go through life and in the process, we learn to trust. During our first steps, first everything, it cannot happen without the support of those who believe in us and what we can do. In our experiences, we build or lose that trust because of how we get treated and/or how it made us feel. We build trust through consistency, and sometimes we do or don’t do it unknowingly for some people. That is how we earn or lose their trust.
To me, trust is given when earned; sometimes, it is given when we choose to. And lately I am learning it happens when we are ready for it.
Most importantly, we need to give it to ourselves, too – Trust to know that when we make mistakes we can always come back and do better; Trust that when people love us when we are not okay, that means they probably really do even if they are not perfect or even if we are not perfect; Trust that even if people have nothing to gain, they will treat us well.
But it is not about being naive. It is about grace to accept what we deserve. It is about reliability and consistency and believing that in the chaos of everyday, when we witness and see it happen, hope is there. And with openness and readiness, it will always get better. Trust the Grand Plan and it will happen when we are ready for it.
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