Manic Monday

So... not much to report today. Work, 5k, dinner, etc. That is my weekday. I just have a few things to chat about... none of which are particularly important or necessary. They are just ramblings and such. Before that, what is important is the new slideshow I put up. Enjoy 270 pictures of pure London goodness. I think i'm up to about 850 photos total. I'm shooting for the big 1000. Can I do it? Find out at the end of the blog.. which is rapidly approaching.

First, today was one of those days where I just kind of felt like crap. Not in the "i'm sick, my foot hurts, i have a migraine" sort of way, but in the way that is absolutely unintelligible. Call it hormones, karma, or a case of the Mondays, I could not explain why I felt that way. My coworkers were sort of down too, so maybe it was a shared aspect. As I was at the tail end of my run, I actually began to think about what I was feeling today and basically came to the conclusion that it is one of the worst ways to feel. I think, as humans... with minds... we typically try to rationalize things. Everything needs to make sense. We need reasons for things. We go to work to make money, we go to the waterpark to have fun, we go to sleep because we're tired. However, today I was facing an emotion that made absolutely no sense. I couldn't point to sickness or some other event that was making me feel the way I did, which was actually worse than if I could find a reason. I wanted to rationalize my emtions, but I just could not do that. It is mind boggling and worse yet, when this occurs you are unable to search for a possible solution. I'll go back to being sick... you go get some medicine. Problem solved. To quote Ari Gold from Entourage: "Boom!" With reason you can find a solution... or at the very least you can attempt to find a solution. So... I don't feel bad now, but this was basically a little piece of sympathy to anyone else who has had to face this kind of problem.

Second, I came to another realization on my run (I try to make my mind busy when my body keeps complaining about its lack of energy... whiny muscles). As I made it to the top of Primrose Hill and I slowed down for my thirty second break, I gasped for air and stared at the ground for most of the time up there. However, just before I was about to take off again, I took one look over the city, which I realized I had been failing to appreciate recently. I looked down on the city and thought to myself how cool it is that human civilization produced the beauty that I was looking on. But then, another aspect of it hit me. The best place to observe what I was looking at was not a product of humans, but one of nature. It was an interesting dichotomy that came to my mind. Beyond that, I didn't think much of it, but I guess something we should all keep in perspective. We as humans do great things, but nature has done awesome things as well. So enjoy them both.

This was sort of a deep post. I didn't really mean for it to be, but it happens sometimes.