I just got done witnessing the famed Boston Marathon. Some did great! Some did as expected. Some (like me) did not qualify. There are great reasons some run and do great. Mostly because they had a perfect collision of desire, decision, health, time to train, age, opportunity and physical ability. The are other great reasons some people don’t show up. Lack of time, desire, health or physical ability or it is just not Their time in life to do that right now. However, one could make the case that there were a lot of people out there with some really great reasons not to run, yet were. I witnessed people without legs running. Some blind. Even some without legs at all! (Push rim). Several are very overweight and poorly conditioned. No doubt there were those with heart conditions and cancer survivors that were having the time of their life because they chose to do so. True to some extent life is what you make it! There are also some legit reasons to sit that one out. I su