The Running Book

“There was a time in the long ago when things were not like this when I looked to the future. When would my life get better? When would I not feel so bad? When would a lover come back? If it was not the future that occupied my thoughts, it was the past, and I was stuck in a loop of should-have, could-have, if I had done this, if I had done that. It was a mental prison that so many of us live in. It was the time before running.”