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For most animals of the wild, life is all about the next meal and raising their young. For a few horses, it's a sport, and life is all about a 2-minute race in the month of May. However, for the cheetah, it's all about a high-speed chase for food on any given day. Every year in early May, people gather in Louisville, Kentucky for the Kentucky Derby. The festival lasts for several days, but the main event consisting of the 20-horse race is over in just over two minutes. That event is about the three year old thoroughbreds who can reach 1.25 miles the fastest. The winner of the Derbe will have to compete well to win in 122 seconds at about 37mph. However, if a Cheetah participated in such a race, he would leave those horses in the dust, because he can reach 60mph in 3 seconds and reportedly run as fast as 70 mph. Nevertheless, when you add it all up, I would much prefer being a horse who can 'long endure' than a cheetah who must capture his prey expeditiously, because he cannot for long sustain such a running pace. The cheetah is a sprinter who expends a tremendous amount of energy, and if he is to enjoy a meal on any given day, his chase of the prey must be completed in about a minute or less. In the grand scheme of things, life is much more than a chase and in the pursuit of life's purpose and destiny, I ask myself, "Am I a sprinter or a long-distance runner?" "Do I have enough to finish the race?" 030720PoSpCtest, Monopoly, Kai Michael Neumann
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