Like Rock Climbing

Life is like rock climbing.
We start at the bottom creating many experiences.
Some good, some bad.Some majestic, some horrific.
Along the journey, we meet people and establish relationship with them.

Some are friends, some are best of friends.
Some we dislike, and some we love.
The ones we dislike, we avoid as much as we can, by all means necessary.
The ones we love, we hold on to as our most favorite part of the journey.

At this place we find a sense of accomplishment and everlasting joy.
At this place we discover the greatness within us.
At this place, we keep every wondeful memories like stones in our pocket.

Then as you progress, as you go higher, you face many obstacles.
Some are small, and some are insurmountable.
Sometimes we manage to go beyond them easily.
Sometimes we get stuck in what seems like eternity.

Sometimes the one we love, our favorite part of the journey,
opt to let go of the line connecting us.
And when they do, we stop and get stuck.
Stuck in time brooding over things that went wrong.

We hang in balance for a long time, never making any progress in our journey.
And we wonder why, why we cant elevate as if it's some kind of a mystery.
And we realize our life has come to a halt because we are no longer looking up.
We are no longer aiming up. Instead, we are looking down, aiming at the wonderful experiences we had with the one we love, our favorite part of the journey.

We get stuck wishing we can go back to that part of our journey.
We forget that life, like rock climbing, is about moving forward.
That in order to elevate ourselves, to get to a higher place,
We have to climb up, not down.

Life, just like rock climbing, is about taking one step up after another.
Do not look down, for what you will see might scare and cause you to fall.
Always look up and aim high. At the end of your journey, you will be happy you outgrew your obstacles.

And as you stand there at the top you will be thankful knowing you have with you, these beautiful stones in your pocket.