A Motto to Live By

I've got a motto in life: "Oooooh, just one more won't hurt." Usually I'm talking about Percy Pigs, dark chocolate digestives, or just calories in general. (Seriously, if I treated people the same way as I treat food: there'd be none of you left, or I'd be on a list, or both!) 

It's hard to know where this philosophy has come from, maybe it's built into everyone, maybe it's just me. One thing's for certain,  most activities in my day to day life come to a premature end. I eat too quickly, I walk too fast, I go to bed too early. Whilst my premature endings may stop things feeling anti-climactic, they sure as hell leave me feeling cold when I look back on what I've missed. So perhaps I've created this motto in an attempt to stop the emptiness. It's just a shame that the things in life I've chosen to apply it to, aren't particularly healthy!

ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! I know, "Come on James, what's all this got to do with the project?!"

WELL, the more I've started regularly jogging, the once negative motto- "Oooooh, just one more won't hurt."- has started to become all the more positive. "Ooooh, I'll just run to the next street", "Ooooh, just do one more lap", "Ooooh, don't stop".

The philosophy which once used to highlight my lack of will power and cause undue concern to my biscuit barrel, has started to spurn a fire inside of me (maybe a stitch) which doesn't want me just to cave in and stop, but carry on the planned route, go further, go faster. 

I understand that this could cause problems, last week's run saw me almost vomit in a nature reserve, but it's better than wanting to give up? Wanting to go home? Isn't it? It seems that as soon as I start, (and it is hard to start) I want to keep going until I physically can't move any more.

It just means that when I get back to my room I collapse into a heap, look in the mirror and think "what on earth am I doing this for?"

 

Excuse the nipple.

But, seriously "What on earth am I doing this for?", it's safe to say I'm only doing it because Hope  and Emily approached me, and partly carrying on purely to get the monies worth out of my new shoes. If those factors weren't present, would my motto really keep me going?

I suppose that's an answer we'll have to find out.