Running

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I went for a run this morning. I usually head out around 5:45-6:00. Today was on the earlier end of that. I take my phone of course, easily accessible in my sweatshirt pocket. Today was kind of different though. I had not gone more than a few yards when I wee the words, "you are beautiful" written in chanlk on the side walk. A few yards later, "yes, you really are." It was a strange thing to see written on the side walk and rather changed the tone of my run. No sooner than I had read this, and I was contemplating who must have written it and why. Who was their target audience? Certainly not me, no one sees me running because I intentionally leave so as to be finished before 95% of the town has even rolled out of bed. I could easily count the number of cars I see in the entire half hour if I chose to do so, and I only saw one person walking a dog, and one other person with a backpack, presumable heading into town to work. So I concluded that the writer of this message must have had a very general audience in mind. Then of course I proceed to think about my own personal opinion of this message. Do I really think I am beautiful? Well, yes in some ways, no in more way. Beauty is a very personal thing. No two people define it exactly the same way. If we are specifically referring to physical beauty only, there are as many personal preferences as there are people to name them. I generally think that almost everyone is beautiful, but of course I am human and tend to see some as more beautiful than others. By the time I got a few blocks farther I had pretty much exhausted this topic, at least as far as my 6:00 AM brain was concerned. The rest of my run was pretty dull I wouldn't say I enjoy running much. Honestly, I just do it to burn calories and get my metabolism up first thing in the morning. Hopefully so it will stay higher longer through the day. I am alwasy terribly self conscious when I am running. I feel like if I went at a later hour, when more people are out and the not so early early birds are also running, that everyone would be staring at me and wondering what on earth I was doing. If someone saw me and recognized me, I would certainly hear about it later, and that would be so embarrassing. That's why I go so early, and keep my hood up, so no one will notice.