Today, I will begin training for a 10K race scheduled in Cleveland, OH on May 16. I can't help but feel alittle scared. I am seriously overweight and this is my first 10K. I guess my fear comes from fear of failure. However, Eknath Easwaran observed that "many, many failures in daily life are no more than failures of the will". Mahatma Ghandi wrote many years ago that "strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Finally, Jon Kabat-Zinn wrote, "What looks like weakness is actually where your strength lies. And what looks like strength is often weakness, an attempt to cover up fear; this is an act or a facade, however convincing it might appear to others or even to yourself."

So, in this great company of visionaries, my weight can be look upon as a weakness and/or  a physical capacity. Yet, my weight or what others perceive as "weakness" is not where my true strength lies. It lies within/comes from my indomitable will. Merriam-Webster defines "indomitable" as "incapable of being subdued". I can hold on to that mental picture! My will, my desire, my dream as things incapable of being subdued! George Bernard Shaw said, "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" So, self, I say to you, Why not?