539-word version:
‘Just run with your eyes closed. There is nothing to fear. What you see will only waver your determination.’
- My mother, 연도, 도시명

Standing on the starting line, those words rang in my ears. This would be my last chance and I had to take it. So I ran off, my eyes firmly closed...

471-word version:
Symptoms of addiction are rather evident; your pulse quickens, blood races through the veins and heart beats like crazy; one may regret it but there seems no way to give up the ecstasy that it brings. Shopaholics, gamblers, talk-a-holics, wanderers, sleep-a-holics… millions of people are addicted to millions of things and so am I to running...