the distance
I get up at 3 am in the morning, to go running. I run for 30 minutes, no matter what the distance and the speed. It's all about being active for thir-ty minutes. I count my heartrate...still not enough. I run faster, harder. He's calling you over there at 2:40 am, twenty-five cents per minute. You talk for 20 minutes. I run for another 10. He spends $5. You see the disparity there? Our lives are completely separate now. It's not that I wake up at 1 in the morning and call you just as you walk through the door, just after driving home from work. Just as you're about to call me and we wonder about how coincidental that it was. I'm running away from us, creating more distance between what we used to be and what I will become. I'll forget almost everyone; I'll learn to live with myself again, only by myself, only for myself.