Run or Nay?

Hello peeps!
Today's post probably a little bit different from previous posts because today I'm not gonna talk about depressive, serious things, what ever you called it.

So today I took part in 5KM Marathon organised by my scholarship provider. Honestly, I didn't wanna take part in the Marathon because well I'm just not a person who likes to sweat and I hate the feeling of out of breath as if i'm dying. I was certain that I wouldn't run on that day which is today because I somehow signed up to be a volunteer for the event just because I didn't want to run.
How funny that I ended up as both which were as a runner and also as a volunteer.

Today I woke up at 4.52am although I was supposed to be at the event site at 4.30am😂. Since the event site is a walking distance from my dorm, I arrived at the scene around 5.00am. There were too many volunteers I guess because when I arrived at the scene, there were still some people who didn't have any assigned job. I tried to make myself look busy so I helped a little bit here and there although there weren't many things to be done. I received a volunteer badge and a set of happi(Japanese cloth) because my job was to handle the registration. You guys probably be asking why do I need to wear happi, right? That is because the theme of the event is Japan 🇯🇵 theme.

Around 5.30am I went back to my dorm, cleaned myself and I returned back to the event site at 6.30am. I loved my job as a volunteer to be honest because i could make myself busy with something instead of just waiting for the event to start.

So here's the interesting part. How did I end up running although I didn't want to? Earlier, I did tell you guys that this event was organised by my scholarship provider didn't I?  Due to that, we(students) had received a marathon t-shirt and a bib a day earlier than other public runners. I took the t-shirt and the bib from the person in-charge and I asked her if volunteers have to run and she said yes😭.

To cut the story short(because i can literally write in a very detail way but you guys probably get bored along the way) after I finished with my duty as a volunteer someone came up to me and asked me if I'm going to run. I told him I don't know and I don't want to run to be honest. Most of the volunteers were getting ready to run and if everyone runs, I'll be left behind, doing nothing? I didn't want to waste my time waiting and as much as I hate running, I hate waiting more than anything especially waiting while doing nothing. While my heart was in doubt whether to run or not, my legs had already took autonomous steps and I started running as well.

It was only 5KM but surely it was tiring as hell(well, not really). Along the way i received bracelets to mark that I had passed certain check points. While running there was water splashed onto me, coloured dusts thrown onto me and finally after overcoming few obstacles plus with the sun that shined so bright in front of me that I had to stop running because if I continued i could probably be dehydrated, I finally reached the destination. I wasn't the early arrivers for sure but I wasn't the last either. I received a medal to mark that i had finished the race.

I am certain that I hate running but sometimes you just have to do what you got to do and it'll pay off at the end of the day. I told myself that I started this journey and I'll finish it even if I have to crawl to get to the destination. Why? Because i can do it, i decided to start the journey and whoever finishes the journey will be rewarded certainly. Everything will be pay off and nobody likes half-produced things. Just like life, you don't stop half way just because you hate it. You have no choice but to walk through life because you don't control the time. So you strive, you work hard and you'll eventually get to the end of life.

Live till the end because life isn't actually as long as you might think.
Thank you for reading till here. It's such a long post isn't it😬. Lastly, cheers to your life ahead and let's strive together.


最後まで頑張りましょうね〜！
(Work hard till the end)

JINN