Last year pre-COVID 19, when we joined a gym, I made sure I would turn up at least 4 times a week. We went to Vanuatu for a couple of weeks, I was already planning on going to the hotel gym every morning.

I assured her it wasn’t what she said. I didn’t understand why I stopped running either. I thought about the last few weeks and the wet weather. I guess rain on most days didn’t help either.

One morning, I woke up feeling refreshed. It was a good 9 hours of non-stop sweet deep sleep. It doesn’t happen very often these days. Some mornings, I would wake up worrying excessively about everything that might happen that day. As expected, I woke up this morning worrying about a new role I’m taking up for next 2 weeks. But this time, rather than entertaining it, I stopped. I replaced it with something else.

What did I replace it with? The thought of me running freely in the local park. Losing myself to a loud techno set by TestPilot.

I don’t know when I would ever attend a music festival again. Lockdown restriction changes on a weekly basis. Do you find yourself losing track of what you can or can’t do anymore? Lucky there’s always one thing I was able to do throughout this pandemic. It was running in the park.

Listening to Deadmau5 dark beats while running puts a smile on my face. It doesn’t matter how much worry, stress or anxiety I had on the day. When the music starts blasting out of my headphone, it connects me back to when I was dancing at a music festival.

I reminds me when we were young again.