Eddie Pinero

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.

So when it hurts, don't carry the burden of the entire journey on your shoulders.

That doesn't help you.

It doesn't help the situation.

Don't let your mind convince you that the climb never ends.

Now, carry what's in front of you.

Run to the next aid station, the next reprieve, find your next patch of flat ground.