The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.
What matters is that you never stop trying.
I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people.
Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity -- something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying.
In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.