98 - Mountain Climber
I have been climbing a mountain for the last 9 years.
I was 17 when I began this journey.
I was 17 when I began this journey.
Only I didn’t start at the bottom.
I began beneath the surface.
It took me a while just to get to the baseline.
I began beneath the surface.
It took me a while just to get to the baseline.
Although now I have come really far.
People who didn’t know me then
don’t understand the relentless
determination it took to arrive here now.
People who didn’t know me then
don’t understand the relentless
determination it took to arrive here now.
And not many people really know
the way I have always walked along the edge.
Just a step away from tumbling back down.
And yes, I did trip and stumble many times.
But my baseline began to rise each time I climbed higher.
But still I felt I had to be painfully careful.
the way I have always walked along the edge.
Just a step away from tumbling back down.
And yes, I did trip and stumble many times.
But my baseline began to rise each time I climbed higher.
But still I felt I had to be painfully careful.
It’s only in these last few weeks that I discovered something
I had been missing all along.
I had been missing all along.
I don’t have to walk this way
when there is an entire path with open space.
I just couldn’t see it
because I was so focused
on not falling off the edge.
when there is an entire path with open space.
I just couldn’t see it
because I was so focused
on not falling off the edge.
-sas