Random Thoughts and a Corresponding Experience

While running in my neighborhood yesterday afternoon, I passed a heavily-bearded man who was walking down the street holding a rifle in one hand and a dead mallard duck in the other.  As we came abreast with each other, I admired his catch and continued along my merry way.  A few yards later, I was struck by the realization that the experience had felt normal. Rifle, dead duck, mountain man beard and all.

I tend to let my mind wander when I run, and what ensued was an imagined conversation between my current self and my ten years younger self. She still lived in a large city before eventually moving to a "subdivision" of hodge-podgy homes and habitants in the country to become the current me.

The part that really made me laugh, literally, out loud was when I pictured the ten years ago me taking in the experience I'd just had.  Mouth agape, latte in hand, she'd have missed the point completely and stated, "You mean we start running in the future?"

Oh, the changes we never expect to make in our lives!  I love the continuous evolution.