A/N: The great geek of procrastination is back! And running away… and will now resume pretending to be MIA. (This is set at the very beginning, though, so even if you haven't watched the whole series, if you've only watched the first episode, you can still probably understand everything!) Yeah. I'm sorry that it sucks so much.
Barry was good at running.
He ran from bullies.
He ran from his past.
He ran from the truth.
Barry didn't remember a time when he wasn't running away.
So when the lightning struck him, it didn't really change much. He had always been running away—all that changed was that he could run faster.
He thought, maybe, he could outrun anything.
But Barry learned some things.
He learned that running away couldn't solve anything.
He learned that running away just made the problem bigger.
He learned that running away wasn't the only solution.
He learned that when he wanted to run away from something, instead he could choose to run towards other things. Or, rather, towards other people.
He learned that nobody could outrun pain.
But he also learned that if you faced it, and stopped running, sometimes pain would start to disappear, bit by bit.
He learned that you couldn't outrun the things that you wanted to run away from the most.
But he also learned that when you had people you cared about with you, you could realize that it wasn't as bad as you had thought it was.
He learned that you couldn't outrun life.
But he also learned that you didn't need to.
Barry was good at running.
That was probably why he was The Flash.