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A review by blvrread
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
5.0
How can a book about running be so fun I could finish it in a day? I go through this book feeling like living in Murakami's diary; how he cheered for himself whenever he go through the hardships in training felt so close to the heart. After all, we are the basic human being with the basic feelings and needs.
Differently for Murakami, he never do something to please anyone but himself. Whenever he feels like doing something, he went through it no matter what people around say, including opening a jazz bar, and writing.
Going through his journey of training for marathon and triathlon, I'm inspired by how Murakami stated that he joined the races not to win it, but to beat self-records of the timing and distance, to feel the satisfaction at the end of the race because he could face the challenge seriously. Doing it half-heartedly will make himself feeling unsatisfied even though he managed to beat the game.
This book screams "where there's a will, there's a way" so loud, even when I am not a runner myself, the aspect of believing you can do what you want to do stick hard in me. This book urge me to keep on 'running' if ever I'll be in any hardships.
"To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible."
Differently for Murakami, he never do something to please anyone but himself. Whenever he feels like doing something, he went through it no matter what people around say, including opening a jazz bar, and writing.
Going through his journey of training for marathon and triathlon, I'm inspired by how Murakami stated that he joined the races not to win it, but to beat self-records of the timing and distance, to feel the satisfaction at the end of the race because he could face the challenge seriously. Doing it half-heartedly will make himself feeling unsatisfied even though he managed to beat the game.
This book screams "where there's a will, there's a way" so loud, even when I am not a runner myself, the aspect of believing you can do what you want to do stick hard in me. This book urge me to keep on 'running' if ever I'll be in any hardships.
"To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible."