State of grace

After running for three days in a row, I started to have a whole new relationship with my body. On Saturday I felt pain in parts of the body I did not even know I had. So, instead of running I went swimming. It was nice and relaxing, especially because my swimming rhythm was quite slow (and anyway the distance was less than 1k).

To make it a perfect day, I finished with dinner in Jamie’s Italian restaurant in Covent Garden. Nice food and excellent company. We were four ladies from two generations: me and my best friend, her mom and one of her best friends. It felt so good, that I almost forgot to eat. No offence to Jamie Oliver, but the conversation and the company were far better than the food!

This dinner made me think about my life in Goodenough for the past few years. It seems to me that I have lived in a peculiar state of grace, creating lifelong bondages with amazing people from all over the world. This sheltered environment pushed me to try new things (some of them rather remote from my previous leisure pursuits), test my limits, grow up and become a bit more myself. No wonder I had no desire to finish my PhD earlier! So, for the past three years I lived on borrowed time, borrowed money and borrowed dreams. Later tonight I will write about how I decided to run the London Marathon.