People always say that running away is a bad thing. They say that if you run away, you are just hiding from all your problems because you can’t face them. Going along with this, they say that your past is always right behind you.
We know that. We know that our past follow us and that we can’t escape it. They follow us for every second of our lives. We have learned this fact from personal experience, or people telling us or the books we have read. We are well aware of the fact that we cannot run away from out past.
But here’s the thing, running away can also be running to. Running away means running forward and life is about moving forward. By running away, you are running to something that you can’t quite see yet but is right over the horizon. You are running toward your future and all that it holds: success, happiness, love. The future is yours, so I say run to it.
Your past is still right behind you. That fact hasn’t changed and it never will. But sitting in the same place, not moving, not running, isn’t helping you at all. You’ll have to face your past eventually, and you will whether you want to or not, but that doesn’t mean you can’t move on from it and run towards something else.
Run towards your future because it’s yours. It is yours to create, to change. You can’t change your past, so go and make your future what you want it to be. It’s all in your hands. You have the power. You have the control of your situation.
Sometimes that control and power can scare us, but it is the most empowering thing in the world. The concept that we can decide what our future holds is terrifying but it also holds the key to accepting what has happened in our pasts.
Your past will always be there, so you can always go back and deal with it later. But don’t let your past be leaden weights on your heart. Don’t let it keep you from following your heart and chasing your dreams.
Cut the chains of the weights and run. Run to your happiness. Run to your freedom. Run to everything that the world has to give to you, as long as you work to own it. Run. Run. Run.
Just because you are running, doesn’t mean you are running away from all the things you have done in your past. It means you are running towards everything that awaits you in your life, in your future.
So run. Run like the wind. Run like there is nothing holding you back. Let the wind whip through your hair and the adrenaline run through your veins. Run with your arms wide open and a smile painted across your lips. Run to the person you want to be. Run to the catch the dreams you are chasing. Run to find happiness in the world. Run. Run. Run.
You aren’t running away from you past, because you will face it one day. But you are running towards your future. You can’t live your live standing still, so lace up your shoes and hit the pavement. Just remember, run to something that will make you happy and proud in the end.
