What do you do when nobody sees you?

Do not index

Today I went for a run.

Usually, a bunch of people are around, so you keep pushing and running because of the “social pressure”. In your mind you think: “what would this person think of me if I stop running now?” and thereby, you continue to run.

For context, I also live in a relatively small town (~30k inhabitants) so it is likely that you will bump into the same person again sometime soon.

I was running today at lunch time so nobody was around, and that made things different.

I could have stopped whenever I wanted. No one would have seen me.

But I didn’t.

That made me think. What do you do when nobody sees you?

That’s probably what defines you.

Thanks for reading,

Mike Rubini