Eddie Pinero

And every time life feels too hard,

Similarly, there's always a reprieve, always a patch of earth that flattens out, always a singular moment to breathe.

And so the power in being able to put your faith in those moments is life-changing.

Let the course take care of the rest.

And the next day, I was talking to my videographer, Brandon, about this metaphor.

I realized this running yesterday.

Does it make sense?

Does it resonate?

And his eyes kind of lit up.

He's like, yeah, it reminds me of aid stations in ultramarathons.

Because the runners, they're not thinking about 100 miles.

They're thinking about the next aid station.

That place where you can breathe and regroup and recover and set out again.

This allows the miles to break down into manageable pieces.

The impossible becomes possible in bite-sized chunks.

That's life.

We break under the weight of forever, under the illusion that the pain or the uncertainty or the uphill climb must last for eternity.

But it doesn't.

Life is not a hundred-mile sentence of suffering.

It's a series of aid stations, a handful of breaths on flat ground.