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I kind of disliked running before. When I was at the high school, I kept running everyday just because of the only desire to keep health and enter to the university; and running is a convenient and easy way to excise. I never gave it too much other meaning so what I felt after the running was tired and out of breath. In the university, every time when I felt my body was not strong enough, and I thought of the running. However, after several times of running, I quit; then I would start it again when I felt something wrong with my body.

During the time I studied in the hospital, I saw so many people in bad state, even some were fighting against the cancer. From their talk and expression, I could feel the strong desire of them to recover health. Except some patients get sick because of the old age or physical trauma, many of the patients in hospital result from their bad habits such as smoking, hard-drinking, lake of excise and so on. I gradually realized how important to have a strong body, though I have that before, not as deep-going as this time. Another reason to keep me running is a girl in my class who almost runs everyday and she is very bright and has something special that I can tell from other girls who less excise. And I wanted to figure it out.

Nowadays, I am crazy about running. I have changed the way I ran before, which was just to finish 1000 meters as soon as I could. Now I run because I want to, and my mind is no more focusing on the final; I don’t know where the ending is and if I want to stop to have a breath then I stop, otherwise keep going. During the running time, I watch the people passing me by, hear the birds singing and enjoy the view, in the meantime, think something happen to me or just run. After one month or so, something incredible happened to me, my endurance was longer and the efficiency of my study was higher than before, even under the pressure of medical examinations. Therefore, even though my time of review was extremely limited, I still got around to running.

 I am so glad that my legs function well and I can depend on them to run more and explore the outside; they give me more freedom and the feeling of being alive. Moreover, running offers me a time to clear my mind and think of my life. So I will continue to do it and I hope the people who are reading this blog can benefit from it.