"SOMEWHERE THE HURTING MUST STOP" - TERRY FOX
“People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.” - Richard Leider W hy do so many people run the Marathon? I have been asking this question for several years. Yesterday was the 15 th edition of the Mumbai Marathon (Tata Mumbai Marathon). About 44,407 men and women – young and old – took part in it… And, why? Each one has his or her own reason. And, that reason, invariably, is compelling. No one runs the Marathon for a skin-deep reason… There is something very personal and bigger that calls a man and a woman to run the Marathon… A dear friend of mine, who lives in America, had posted a very vibrant picture of her after her Marathon participation in her state in America. She is in her forties and has college-going children. Last few years have been very traumatic for her with some major family problems. She had been sharing some of these problems with me and we were constantly in touch with each other. However, I did not hear from her f...