On my 57th birthday, I decided to personally celebrate it by going on a bicycle tour, following the banks of the Aura river in my home town of Turku, Finland. While I’ll have a multi-part series of this local ride coming out later, I’m now, for the first time, posting something quite out of the ordinary, compared to what I usually offer up.
At the conclusion of the ride, I was suddenly flooded by a wave of strong thoughts and emotions, when I realised that it had now been exactly 5 years since I’d moved to Turku to live. This led me to start deeply pondering all the things that had happened in my life over this past half decade.
I’d actually conceived the Life on the Run concept, just after the end of my 18 year long marriage. I was in desperate need to recover from the trauma of all that, and so I set out to find a way to recalibrate my life, and to carefully decide what direction I was going to take myself next.
So, as a kind of therapy, I started to do long distance walking caminos and cycling tours. From that, it developed into making videos of those journeys with the primary goal of hopefully inspiring others to do the same, particularly those souls also looking for a way out of chaos towards new clarity and balance in their lives.
Deliver me Lord,
from chaos to clarity.
The wheels keep spinning.
‘Life on the Run’ by Jyri Manninen
The video above is a brief summary of those first 5 years of Life on the Run; and for those who may right now be going through some tough times, I hope that my words bring you at least a little bit of encouragement, as to how to begin navigating the inner turmoil of all the associated negative emotions, and sometimes even feelings of utter helplessness. Just know this. There is a way forward, and all you need to do is put one foot in front of the other … literally.
Be blessed,
Jyri
run for your life 