I'll never stop writing

Although I haven't posted any blogs since June 2012, I never stopped writing. When I'm walking to class, grocery shopping, or running....especially running.... I'm writing in my head. I've been listening to audio books while I'm training for my first half-marathon and when I write in my head- I imagine the narrator of Safe Haven also reading my words. It's not my own voice, it's a much calmer, soothing voice that reads my words back to me. I've been writing about running of course... funny instances like "If I ever do actually get hit by a car while I'm running, I hope it's more of an Elf moment than actual pain." (referencing the Christmas movie in which Will Ferrel gets hit by a taxi and just stiffly lands on the hood and keeps going, sharing the advice later that, "The yellow ones don't stop.") I write about the defeat you can feel while running when you just have to stop and the confidence that comes when you can tell people "Yea, I ran 10 miles this morning." While my boyfriend Matt was at firefighting boot camp for 2 weeks, I wrote about missing him and realizing how I took how safe I feel with him for granted. I wrote about how I oddly missed him the most when I had to go get groceries without him and how he makes the little mundane things more fun. And when he got back, I was inspired by the Tim McGraw song "One of those nights" that talks about how you can just tell when you're going to remember a moment for the rest of your life.... and when I came home from work on January 18th, after not hearing from him all day, and had a dozen roses and a note that said "I missed you" next to my bed and immediately took off running to Matthew's apartment..... I knew I was going to remember that moment for the rest of my life. Then I started writing about time..... and how right now my freshman year of college seems like "a long time ago" and that in about 10 years.... I'll lump my college years together and talk about them in one blurred notion. Right now every week brings a new phase a new thought a new blessing or a new challenge.... but down the road it will all be one chunk of my life. These and other thoughts will find their ways from my head and my heart onto the keyboard.