Run son of Adam, run! The world is a crowded running track and the start line is a couple of steps, or rather heads and feet, away from you. You are all on your own, no friends, no family, no acquaintances, just you. Feeling nervous? Why should you when everyone around you will do the same as you?! Feeling in doubt? Well, there is no going back. Only forward and ahead. And the clock is ticking...
The countdown has started. You can feel the pumping of your heart beating simultaneously with each called number. The voices are getting higher and clearer. The breaths are getting heavier and deeper. Five! You look around and see the people all looking forward, present with their bodies but their minds are already somewhere else. Four! So you look down to the ground, wondering where would they be to join them. Three! And you raise your head up to the front yourself, looking far but farther than you could ever have imagined. Two! You can feel the rush of the blood to your head, and the rush of adrenaline to your muscles. One! It takes only a second to start a race or to end it; one second can change it all. Go! Runners, Go! Run to meet your destiny..
So you penetrate your way among the crowd, and the crowd penetrate their way across you. Past and before you. Through you. You are losing track of the details around, having in mind only 2 things: a clock that has never stopped ticking and the group of runners that you are following and that are following you. And the longer you run, the heavier your steps become, so close to be heavy enough that they would cling to the ground and no longer be in motion. But against all the odds, you keep on moving. Sometimes sprinting, other times jogging, sometimes accelerating, other times decelerating, sometimes hurling, and other times staggering and almost stumbling. Running around the corners, deflecting and detouring. Jumping above the bumps, defying the sweat and pain. Determined to finish the race. A race of glory or a race of shame, you shall reach the finishing line: the choice is all yours.
