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What's the secret of running?
Why does it make me feel so free? So weightless?
How is it possible that every single trouble, every single thought,
removes itself from my mind?
Well, I don't know.
All I know is that when my feet hit the ground, and my heartbeat rises
and my steps get faster and faster to try to keep up,
it's a bit like putting glasses on.
You can see things that before you could not see,
hear things that you didn't even know existed.
And above all, you get in touch with everything that's around you,
you feel as if you finally know where you stand and where your place is.
There's just one difference.
It's not about putting things on, it's about taking things off.
Taking down that barrier, which is put up by horns beeping while you're driving to work.
Taking down the buildings in which you hide every day to escape from the people you fear.
Taking out coffee in bars, trains, lamp posts, benches.
Taking off your jacket and having the courage to play,
as if you were a child, without having to praise the victory.
Taking out all those things which control our time
and our space.
Taking out the car parks, the malls, petrol an banks,
your keyboard, your apartment, your cat, your television, your watch, yours.
Everything that's yours, that belongs to you,
to go back to when nothing belonged to you, but yet everything was there for you,
just because you could look at it, you could touch it, you could taste it.
Even taking out gravity and seeing the world from a different point of view,
from where everything is clear, everything is true.
That's why I run.
Beacuse the cities which we built don't know anything about my heartbeat rising
and my steps getting faster and faster trying to keep up.
They can't understand.
And so I run, to not run out of fuel.