{"id":23,"date":"2023-12-14T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2024-02-13T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:20:12","slug":"i-am-the-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/i-am-the-resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am the Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a long time, I\u2019ve been a runner. I\u2019d run every day. Sometimes I\u2019d run twice. And when I didn\u2019t run, I spent my time thinking about how to become a faster runner. Although I, by any objective measure, wasn\u2019t very good at it, it was who I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.<\/p>\nForrest Gump<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Although I had reasons<\/a>, at the end of the day I ran because I liked it. It is such a simple thing. You just put on your shoes, go out and do it. And you know that each time you go out and do the work, you become a little faster. You never regret a run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just felt like running.<\/p>\nForrest Gump<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So I became a guy who ran. More than that, I was a guy who thought about running, read about running and listened to podcasts about running. I talked about running and I wrote about running. It was who I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until a couple of months ago. Just like Forrest Gump, I knew that my running days were over. No chronic injuries or fatal conditions triggered by my running. I just reached the end of the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m pretty tired. I think I\u2019ll go home now.<\/p>\nForrest Gump<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With the world at my feet, and infinite time to spare after retiring from running, what do I do now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time to start blogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running gave me a lot. At times it made me feel like there\u2019s nothing out there I couldn\u2019t do. As if whatever I wanted to accomplish, I could do it if I just put my mind to it. But more importantly, it taught me that nothing happens overnight. Every journey starts with a first step, and continues with the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always wanted to be a writer. But I\u2019ve always put it off. There\u2019s always been something that\u2019s not quite right for me to start pursuing writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t quite nailed down exactly what I want to write about just yet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce I\u2019ve read these thirty books on how to write I\u2019ll be ready to go.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI need to get a degree in journalism first, then I\u2019ll become a proper writer and can start writing proper things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t go to school and pursue a degree to become a runner. You just go for a run today. And instead of obsessing about trying to learn the theory behind the perfect biomechanics of running, you go run again tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I honestly have no idea where I will go with this thing. And that\u2019s the point. The idea is to just write, and then, eventually \u2014 maybe (hopefully) \u2014 I\u2019ll one day become a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why I’ve started blogging again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,55],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@lars\/111924109542093704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lars-christian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}