But my hold on my mental health was tenuous. My father’s dementia had progressed and left him with delusions and the inability to control bodily functions. He needed someone nearby all the time, a responsibility that fell to my mom and me.
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“It was a day like a slow-motion video of twilight. Uneventful, to put it mildly. The lead gray of the sky mixed ever so slowly with black, finally blending into night. Just another quality of melancholy. As if there were only two colors in the world, gray and black, shifting back and forth at regular intervals.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.”
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
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