So I'm the gym today. Running my laps.
And this guy whizzes past me. And he's super fast but that's even the point of what I'm saying because it's secondary to what I want to say about him. Ok, so, he whizzes by me. And the first time he does so I think he just says, "behind you," but it came out as such an out-of-breath garble that I'm not really sure. But I'm doing my lame-ass run/walk interval thingy ("intervals" being my excuse for not being able to run continuously) and the guy keeps passing me-- regards of whether I'm on a running lap or a walking lap, he's always at least twice as fast as me. But the thing about this guy. THE FREAKIN THING I AM GEEKING OUT ABOUT. Is that every time he passed me (and by the end of his run he had passed me well over ten times) he would say something encouraging and give me a 'thumbs up' sign. Every time he passed. He switched it up between things like, "Keep it up," "Good work," "Keep going, you're almost there," and I always wanted to say something back but he sped off so quickly that I don't think he would have heard me (and even if he did, he probably didn't have time to answer?). And there were these two other dudes running and I was trying to stay away from them so I don't know if the speedy guy was encouraging them as he passed by as well. But the fact that he made the effort every time he passed me to say something motivational was just so... wholesome. I don't particularly like words of affirmation like that because they seem fake. But this guy was so consistent and his words were so pure and I don't know whether to call it sportsmanship or something else, but it definitely made me smile during my workout tonight. And I ran by him once after he was already done and just resting by the side of the track; even then our eyes kinda met as I ran by and he said his encouraging tidbit and smiled and it just melted my heart. Speedy stranger, I may never see you or hear your breathless affirmations ever again. But I'm sending this blog post out into the void just to make you a little more real in my own mind. Sometimes the littlest things have such a profound effect and I hope you never stop being who you are and doing what you do. Thank you for restoring a small bit of my faith in humanity. And you're so fast, Good Lord, I can't even comprehend it.
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