Mountains

Let's talk about mountains. You start
climbing one, you toil, you sweat, you finally
reach the top, and what do you get? Well,
along with a sense of accomplishment, of
peace, of a job well done, along with the
satisfaction of doing what you set out to do.
...you get a great view of the next mountain.
Looming. Challenging. Calling your name.

But wait! Don't feel like you have to take on that next
mountain yet. Let's dwell on this one for a while. Lay
there with your hands stretched out behind your head.
Watch the clouds running across the sky and tell yourself
you're on top of the world because in a sense you are. Just
be for now, for you. Then, when you're ready...pick
yourself up, dust yourself off, put that pack on your back,
and start climbing down. One foot in front of the other,
that's all you can do. This walk never ends, you know.
There's always another mountain. That's what makes life
thrilling and you breathless.

There are days, there are times, when you feel like you've
walked so far, when the voice inside you is complaining that
it's all uphill, that it always will be. And then, after all
that, way beyond your blue horizon, you see the biggest
mountains you've ever seen, and you think, "I can't do that."

Well, I hope you always have somebody who tells you
that you can. Like I'm telling you now.

You know, I don't have any more answers that you have.
I waited until the end to tell you that. I'm as scared
as you are of just going through the motions in Life, of
not getting anywhere. All I know is that time really is a
wheel in constant motion, always rolling us along. Raise
your hand if you want to look back on your years and
wonder where those years have gone. You have to carpe
the diem. You have to seize the day. That is what I
hope for you, as you live ad as you love and as you
fill up your life's pages with your story. And it doesn't
matter if it's good enough for anyone else to read.
That's why it's called YOUR story.