Because I run..............

Few months ago when we were out of a very long, terrible and tough meeting Dr Neeta asked me "Sanjeev jee, how can you be so fresh and smiling at the end of such a tough meeting". I hadn't realised that I was looking fresh and was smiling even when my supervisors were shouting at me. After thinking for few minutes.......I realised that I had started running in the morning since last one month and the effects were already started to be seen.................I became excited.

Few weeks latter I was sitting adjacent to Dr Bisika in a meeting and she said me "Sanjeev jee, it seems that you are loosing weight these days. Is it right ?". I just replied "Oh really..." And didn't tell anything in front of her. I said with in myself......."It is because I run....."

Once I was going through some very very difficult times. Yeah....very very hard times.......there were questions related to my performance..........there were serious concerns from the donor that some of the activities that I should have accelerated were moving in a sluggish way. With in my own organization also there were some criticisms regarding performance of my unit. I was surrounded by stress, tensions, matrixes and deadlines.......I had allmost collpased. I was in immense stress and pressure. I had almost forgotten to laugh. Many health problems had started to appear in me and I was about to reach the stage of depression.........Despite all these problems I had never lost the hope and was looking for some positivity. I kept on working hard thinking that someday I could bring changes and could prove those people who were questioning on my performance as wrong. But I was looking for some therapy to keep me surviving on these stress, pressures and burden. And suddenly i found this therapy "Running early in the morning".

In the first few days it was very difficult.....but in few days I was able to manage it. I got up early in the morning.....put on my gears and started to run. I took the help of some blogs by morning runners and started going through some motivatinal videos on youtube. All these strategies helped me to continue running every morning. After running for few months, the winter started and I felt lazy. It was difficult for me to get out of bed early in the chilly morning. I was again back to the stage of lazzyness and again surrounded by the stress and burdens.

Since last one month, I'm again back on track. I have started running early in the morning. This gives me freshness on whole day in my work. All my stress, burdens and pressures are swept away from my body in the form of sweat.......I feel really really very fresh, agile and motivated at the end of half an hour morning run. These days morning run has become a part of daily life.....its no more a daily routine. As I dont have to remember to take breath, I dont have to remember to do morning run after getting up in the morning. This happens automatically................I'm looking forward to continue this morning run till my last breath.