Sometimes you just need to run.
\nDo a warm-up.
\nStretch out your stiff, sedentary legs.
\nSquat down for a low start.
\nAnd three-two-one\u2014go!<\/p>\n
Run.
\nNot away from yourself.
\nBecause no matter how well-trained you are, this person will immediately\u2026 somehow catch up to you.<\/p>\n
Not away from your husband.
\nBecause he is not someone you\u2019d ever want to escape from.<\/p>\n
Not away from home.
\nBecause I feel safe and calm there.<\/p>\n
Not away from the children.
\nBecause they are, in principle, goodness and the meaning of life.<\/p>\n
Not away from work.
\nBecause I love it unconditionally, and I feel myself riding its sled every day, sensing its little stirrings.<\/p>\n
But sometimes, you just have to run.
\nFrom nothing.
\nAnd from everything.<\/p>\n
Just so that you can ask the one beside you:
\n\u201cHow are you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Without the background hum of the washing machine.
\nWithout the oven beeping, warning it\u2019s time to call everyone to the table.
\nWithout the dishwasher demanding to be emptied again.
\nWithout piles of laundry waiting to be sorted.
\nWithout realizing it\u2019s time to go to the store because the fridge is empty again.
\nWithout racing thoughts: who needs to be taken somewhere, or picked up, and when.
\nWithout the duty to walk the dog.
\nWithout the news on TV.
\nWithout evening cartoons.
\nWithout the vacuum humming.
\nWithout shoveling snow.
\nWithout the questions:
\n\u201cHave you tidied your room?\u201d
\n\u201cHave you brushed your teeth?\u201d
\nWithout assignments.
\nWithout letters.
\nWithout emails.
\nWithout the daily grind\u2014
\nwhich you actually love very much.<\/p>\n
But you understand that in the whirlwind of everyday chaos, if there is even a moment to ask:
\n\u201cHow are you?\u201d
\nThere\u2019s barely enough time to answer.<\/p>\n
When it\u2019s time to run,
\nwe glance at each other, grateful to generous fate for grandparents
\nwho take care not only of the growing grandchildren, the teenage Mister Ego, but also the home\u2026<\/p>\n
We pack a few little \u201cthings,\u201d
\nget into the family car,
\nand \u201crun\u201d for hundreds of kilometers.<\/p>\n
So that the answer to the question: How are you?
\ncan be given while watching slowly drifting boats and flying birds.<\/p>\n
And then\u2026 after longing for the whirlwind of daily life,
\nyou return to it with great joy and the knowledge
\nthat you have SO MUCH.<\/p>\n
Evening toast.
\nTo \u201cescapes,\u201d
\nand to the grandparents
\nwho give you the chance to hear long, heartfelt answers
\nto very short, simple questions.
\nIn silence.<\/p>\n
Mua,
\nV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-17655","istorija","type-istorija","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istorija\/17655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istorija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/istorija"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}