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Marathon

lilahjane:

Me: Hey, here come the runners! Wooooh!
Pheidippides: Who are these people? Where are they going?
Me: From one end of New York to the other. It’s a twenty-six-mile distance.
Sound familiar?
Pheidippides: What message do they carry… and to whom?
Me: Oh, they’re not messengers.
Pheidippides: But then… who has forced them to do this?
Me: No one. It’s like, you know, a way of testing yourself.
Pheidippides: But surely, a general or king has said to them, “You must do this. Do this or you will be killed.”
Me: No, they just signed up.

-Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich. My thoughts exactly.