Thank you to 'The R4R Runners'
This week we’re taking a break from ‘Meet the R4R Runners’ to send out a fresh questionnaire, to thank the respondents so far, and offer a bit of insight into how this is helping R4Rs cause.
Firstly, thank you to all of the people who have responded so far:
Every respondent to the questionnaire is diversifying the message of resilience from the original way that it was presented through my story. This is important because each person interprets information differently and as we meet more and more R4R Runners, the potential for more people to interpret the importance of resilience grows.
It also grows the R4R community in size and variety, which only strengthens our message. The idea, that people from all walks and varying backgrounds are reaching similar conclusions despite different experiences, serves to validate the importance of practicing and implementing resilience.
Furthermore and perhaps most importantly, the growth of the R4R community gives people the outlet to exercise resilience should they ever need to. R4R has given people a consistent bookmark in their calendar where regardless of someone’s situation, there is a great group of people who meet, exercise, and have a yarn every week.
The importance of this is significant and the act of turning up becomes a statement to ourselves and those who might need some support. Exercising resilience is not to avoid the pain, but to give ourselves an opportunity to feel better and help maintain that on the other side of whatever struggle we’re facing, there is something good and there is a stronger version of ourselves.
Thank you to everyone that has responded, everyone that is yet to respond, and everyone who turns up as often as they can. We have all made a difference already and we will continue to make a difference… as long as we ‘Just. Keep. Moving.’
