Funny, you can find motivation in the oddest places. Not too long ago I picked up a silly, quirky book in the free pile outside my favorite bookstore, Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls. Hidden in this very girly tome is a phrase I love. At this particular place in the book, a young woman searches for the best way to offer luck, instead of "break a leg," there is "in bocca al lupo," or "into the mouth of the wolf. It is an Italian phrase that is meant to bestow luck and instill courage and it is properly answered, crepi il lupo: I shall eat the wolf."
I can just see myself running hard on those difficult days, pounding the dirt path in the cemetery muttering "I shall eat the wolf, I shall eat the wolf!" I shall eat the wolf!!!
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