Run

It is when we stop running and being distracted that facing reality becomes inescapable. Whatever has been left undealt with in life begs to be examined and the circle closed. 

We are all disysfunctional creatures because we are human and were raised by imperfect people within the framework of an irrational world. Our task over our lifetime seems to be to make sense of it and find perspective. 

In retirement I am more aware of how people are constantly running and distracting themselves. It looks more odd to me than ever and remember my own participation with a detachment that is fortified with the passage of time. 

As I become older I care less about feeding the world what it wants and focus on what I need. That those things are often in opposition shows how much of our lives are often organized against our own best interest. 

It can take sometimes take a lifetime to understand this and some never address it at all.