What I talk about when I talk about running

(audiobook) Haruki Murakami. Memoir about Murakami's running and writing. whenever you put the book down, makes you feel you want to write, and run, and be calmer, unpretentious like Murakami. He us humble. Quite a contrast reading this just after Job's biography.

One of the biggest shockers for me is  how little seriously does Murakami takes writting. I mean, he is obviously disciplined, and a hard worker, but he doesn't go about thinking he was born with a destiny or a mission in life. As he describes, one while watching a baseball game, he just realized he wanted to write something. no previous dreams of fame, no expectations. He just went and did it, with discipline and open nature, the same way he started training for marathons.

As a matter of fact, Murakami does seem to take life itself and his own persona very little seriously, which is something I wish I could do more.

He never tells you to go and run, but I dare you to read this book without going for it!