Are you running from something?

This was a question posed to me on a job interview. Are you running from something, or running to something? Really made me stop and think about this and why I was doing what I am doing. Yes, I thought, I was indeed running from something. A situation I was not comfortable with. I was also running to something, what I thought will ease that feeling and something "better". As I had learned 6 months earlier, I had run out of one situation which was uncomfortable, only to run into another uncomfortable situation. When I was speaking with a friend she used the old saying "You leaped out of the frying pan and into the fire..", I laughed and said, "Yes I did".

On a deeper level what are you running away from? If you think about this and answer honestly, you may come up: Some type of fear, love, another person, an event, yourself, God?

And what are you running to? Are you really running towards it, or focused more on the running from...?

We run from that uncomfortable feeling which is our ego's perception and think we are running to something more comfortable. In reality there is no running for we are one with God. The clouds we run through will one day bring us back to the realization we never left that light. But, in the meantime we run on...

From Jackson Browne:

Running on, running on empty

Running on, running blind

Running on, running into the sun

But I'm running behind

I don't know how to tell you just how crazy this life feels

Look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through

Looking into their eyes, I see them running to...

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