Eddie Iz Running and Tidy Poltergeists

It’s been a while since i wrote one of these.

I have not really seen my family since Tuesday; i keep coming in after they have gone to bed and leaving before they wake up. I’m pretty sure my family are in the same house as me still. It’s like having tidy poltergeists, things keep getting washed up, tidied up and put away but I never see it being done. By night I exist, by day they do.

Although last night I finally saw my family, Last night I was really wound up and stressed, to an extreme that hasn’t happened in long while. It was a combination of Spending all day trapped on campus with limited time to relax or socialise, and then again I suppose I am a third year student. The sheer volume of work on at the moment is ridiculous to the point that I can’t even think about my major project with all the other work currently on.

This is where Eddie izzard came in, Last night i watched the final part of Eddie izzards endurance challenge for comic relief and was amazed and motivated by it. For the past few days I have been on campus pretty much all day long doing various coursework and it was driving me insane.

I know it’s only a month and a bit now till I finish my degree but I really have lost all interest in my education and studies, I would much rather be more proactively involved in work or LGBT issues. Watching Eddie run 1132.05 Miles in 51days was inspiring. It made me think that if he can do that with all the physical, emotional fatigue and stress for not himself but others around the country, I can survive the final few months of my degree. Watching Eddie complete his run made me slightly emotional purely out of his she determination and drive to do something thought impossible.

Secondly during the few programs about his run he started to open up and talk about various parts of his personal life and it was nice to hear his experience on society and life in regards to being a transvestite. Openly admitted that he had known since he was 5, and that it’s not really a choice, a view which he extends to the LGBT community in general. I hope my parents have been watching and taken note of this.

Overall Eddie’s drive and devotion to a challenge for the people rather than himself, along with his personal life experiences keeps ever increasing my respect for him and I consider him to be one of my role models.

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