22 September 2011

When you run cross country, you run for the popsicle, but it's getting to the popsicle that's most of the challenge. There's always a white line painted for you every single step of the way. Of course, this journey is much more difficult if it's missing in some places.
People tell you to always be a leader, and not a follower. Sometimes I don't want to be the first one to figure out that there's a hole in the ground or a cliff somewhere and fall. Although there are times where I'd gladly lead anyone and everyone through anything, I just like to have a small outline of where I should be going or what I should be doing. Maybe it's the perfectionist inside of me?
When it comes to running a cross country race, coach is always telling us to be in the very front of everyone. Well when there's not a line for the whole way, I don't want to be leading the whole group on an extra .5 mile expedition around the guys course when we don't have to be running it. It wouldn't really be beneficial to our times.
I'm one of those quiet people that likes to sit back and take in other people's ideas and mesh them with my own and see if together we can have an even greater idea. Although, I do think that sometimes it's kinda fun to forge your own path and take the "road less traveled by" as Robert Frost would say.