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There’s this thing my coach says whenever I hit rock bottom. He’ll look at me and say, “Favour, don’t be in a hurry to rush out of this season.”

But because I have coconut head, that is usually the exact thing I want to do. 

I don’t know how to sit still. I want to fix things, figure things out, move on, get better, do something. Anything but sit in the discomfort and actually face what is happening.

As a professional runner, lol, I mean someone who has mastered the art of running instead of confronting things and coming to terms with them, I’ve come to realise that sometimes, you really do need to sit down there and take a nap, resttttrrr 

Because the problem you run from today, what is the strategy for solving it tomorrow?

The idea is, it’s okay to give up sometimes, it’s okay to be frustrated, tired, angry and exhausted, it’s okay to crash. Smash that dream if you must, fall apart, cry, admit that you don’t have the strength for this right now.

But afterwards, you have to pick up the pieces and make magic.

The real issue is finding the balance.

On one side of the coin, we break down and immediately become desperate to pick ourselves up and keep going, sometimes before we have even understood what the season was trying to teach us.

On the other side, we stay down longer than we should because the ground starts to feel comfortable, and we become afraid of getting up and dealing with what comes next.

Dearest reader, I’ve been at both extremes.

I’ve rushed out of seasons I should have sat through, and I’ve stayed in places longer than I needed to because facing the next step felt scarier than remaining where I was.

So maybe the goal isn’t always to get out, sometimes, the goal is to understand why you are there.

Rest without making the rest your identity. So, in the words of Pojomatics, "don’t be in a hurry."

Sit down.

Take the nap.

Feel the feelings.

Learn the lesson.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.