All we care about is who gets up.

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Thad couldn't believe what he had to do. He had to be the encouraging one, the person with the speech... To keep a team, to keep someone out of their darkness and their pity ppity. He recalled and quoted the speedsters before him, his family to help.

" grandfather has  said.
'It doesn't matter if you're the slowest kid in gym class or the fastest man alive, every one of us is running. Being alive means running. Running from something, running to something or someone. And no matter how fast you are, there are some things you can't outrun. Some things always catch up with you.'

“Sometimes the only way to move forward is to revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once we do, you will see that you can go further than you ever imagined.”

'But my mother once said “Life is locomotion... if you’re not moving, you’re not living. But there comes a time when you’ve got to stop running away from things... and you’ve got to start running towards something.'

"I didn't make this up..... Any of it, it's not original.  Just a family saying.."

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