My Journey With Weight Loss – Celebrating Life

Today I opted to do a 10k since I haven’t done one in a month. It is a busy day today so I was up at 4am and on the road by 4:45am. I checked my weather app and it said it would be dry so no need for my bright running jacket. Then I looked outside and thought, hmm, not quite dawn yet and while I wouldn’t call it dark since I would be running in black clothing I figured I needed something. I dug out my little reflective vest and hit the road. I have to say I didn’t even have to do a lot to talk myself through this run. As a matter of fact when I got to about the 7k mark I thought yep, I’m still well on track with my training.

The past 2 years have been really tough. There has been so many events and milestones that my husband and I missed celebrating together because of the pandemic. We missed our birthdays and anniversaries, me retiring, my taking up running, you name it. The only holiday we managed to celebrate together was Christmas and given I have a family that celebrates everything this was really hard for us. Moreover, last year was made even more difficult by my brother losing his leg but I remained confident we would at some point be able to just celebrate everything and that is what helped keep my spirits up.

Today is that day, it is our 28th anniversary and we are spending it together. I have to admit because my husband worked out of town and it always seemed when he was home on our anniversary that I was traveling somewhere, we have not celebrated a lot of anniversaries together so today is special. I have a bit of a surprise planned for my husband which I know he will enjoy but then it is going to be a low key day with some special drinks and a nice dinner at home. We don’t need anything fancy, just being together today is enough for us.

I think it is important though to celebrate just life in general. There is a lot going on in the world right now with things like a war, mass shootings and even monkey pox (seriously, the pandemic wasn’t enough). It is all enough to really get you down but you know what, I have decided that we are good, we are together, we are getting to do a lot of things we have put off for years, other than my sister’s broken leg everyone is pretty healthy (disregarding normal chronic issues) and in general we are all happy. These are all good things so I think today instead of looking at it as celebrating our anniversary I am just celebrating life and I plan on trying to find a way to celebrate life going forward no matter how bad things may seem to be. I have to say just the thought of that puts a smile on my face.