A man I respect once said “If you are created to be an orange, don’t try to be an apple. You’d be a very funny looking apple.”
The four runners take their positions at the line of the race track. The referee pulls his gun out. He points it at a clear blue sky and pulls the trigger.
“BANG!!!!”
The sound rends the air and like coiled springs, the runners take off. They’re hard at it, but at the 100M mark, one of them stumbles and falls. His upper body is quite bigger than his lower body and from the beginning it was clear he was struggling to keep his balance.
The crash as he hits the dusty ground is resounding. The other runners leave him behind pretty quickly.
They keep running.
At the 250M mark, the runner who had previously being in the lead falls to the ground. He keeps panting, he’s out of breath.
Rounding the bend, almost there, suddenly the runner who had been lagging behind puts on a burst of speed and passes his competition like a bolt of lightening. Run as hard as he may, the first, now the last, can’t make it.
You see, he had expended his energy previously to gain the lead and was just holding on. Meanwhile the other runner had being conserving...

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