Pebble In Your Shoe?

Your enjoying an easy run, thinking how great its going. You breath easily, legs feel strong, the weather is just right and all goes well with life. Seemingly out of nowhere you feel a little something in your shoe, it feels like a pebble, but you search your mind for what it might otherwise be. It is not particularly painful, but its a bother. You tell yourself to forget about it and enjoy the run. You try but cannot stop thinking about whatever it is in your shoe. You don't want to stop... your running and running well. Mentally now, all you can do is go from telling yourself to forget about it back to, hey I gotta stop and get that thing outta there. But you go on
fighting with yourself and not stopping. You begin to think how this has ruined your great little run and begin to think how whatever it is in your shoe has ruined the day. All efforts to move or dislodge the pebble or whatever it is have failed. At last you give in and give up and you stop, take off your shoe and turning it upside down out falls the tiniest piece of pebble you could imagine. You wonder it that's really all it was, after all it seemed as though it was a boulder just before you stopped. Looking in the shoe you discover nothing else. You put the shoe back on and begin to run again. How good that feels you think, why didn't I stop earlier and get that pebble out of my shoe? Why did I torture myself with trying to ignore it and why didn't I just stop? Oh well, it's over now and you get back into a nice pace, you realize your run has not been ruined nor has your day. All is well again, the pebble in your shoe has been removed. You forget
it ever happened. On you go with your run and the day moves on.

We all have somethings in our lives, like the pebble in the shoe. Do we try to live with it as bothersome as it is? Or do we stop and take action to remove it? Think about some of the pebbles in your life that may be bothering you unnecessarily. Stop and look within, you may be able to find a pebble or two in your own shoe and you may just want to let them go. You just might enjoy the ride all the more, less the pebble in your shoe.