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Km: Tuesday - 10, Wednesday, 11. For the week - 21

I can honestly say I’ve never spent much time reading ancient Sufi poetry. To be perfectly frank, I’ve never really felt like I was missing out until today. Well, in fact, until Monday night on the train home. I read the following quote, apparently by Sufi poet Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (circa 1200 ACE):

Come, Come whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper,
lover of leaving. Our’s is not a caravan of despair.
Come even if you have broken your vows a
thousand times, Come, come yet again.

I particularly like the second part of that verse, “even if you have broken your vows a thousand times, come”. It’s one of those observations that seems to have echoes in almost all facets of my life. Yes, including running.

I don’t have much of a talent for philosophical or spiritual rumination, and this probably isn’t the place for that anyway. Let’s just leave it as something to park at the back of my mind, where the important thinking happens.