The Side Effects of Endorphins

I’m a long-distance runner and sometimes I run in the middle of nowhere. Most times I run by myself.

A few years back it was a Sunday morning. It was raining slightly, and I felt a discomfort between my shoulder blades. I asked my running partner to slow down as something didn’t feel right. A few hours later, I ended up in the hospital as heredity got the best of me. A heart attack, is the last thing I expected. I am vegan and I was running 6 miles a day.

In my opinion, there are no real coincidences, as there is a big pool of things that can actually happen in our lives. They seem like coincidences, but they’re not. Neither my brothers, or my sisters seem to have the happenstance of heredity that I do.

A few weeks earlier, I took three dogs out running in the middle of nowhere in Goldbar Washington. That would not have been a good time to have a heart attack. It happened on a Sunday and my wife was home. That was a good time to have a heart attack. I ran faster than normal that day. If I would’ve run slower, I might not have had a heart attack. It may have snuck up on me at a more inconvenient time.

The possibilities are actually endless where every possible outcome is a complicated mathematical equation on how we got here. some of those possible outcomes are difficult to even think about.