21 Ramadhan, 1446
I know that I'm prone to think too much of numbers and targets. It can be useful to do so, to a reasonable degree, but over-thinking these things becomes tediously wearing. There's really not much point in counting the days of fasting. It won't speed up the month. And the whole point is to slow things down anyway.
Another number I found haunting me just now was the 50 minutes I spent on the elliptical trainer prior to breaking the fast. I'm perfectly okay with that number, but in the initial phases of my work-out I'd been seriously wondering about pushing up to 55 minutes and had pretty much developed the intention to do so by the 30 minute mark. The problem was that at 40 minutes I knew I was running out of the necessary reserves fast and it would be foolhardy to push it too hard just for the sake of a number.
In the event I gratefully, and wisely, stopped at 50 minutes; but I'm still just that little bit irritated by what now seems a bit of a failure. Following my own logic I can see I need to translate that irritation into a useful target for the future. As ever, the necessary wisdom of patience comes in more than handy.
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