Thursday, August 25, 2005

Ain't no mountain high enough

Was thinking about mountains and valleys and what a pain it is to have to go over them. After going up, you need to come down and it's pretty much repetitive. Up down, up down.

moun·tain
n.

1. Abbr. Mt. or Mtn. A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill.

val·ley
n. pl. val·leys

1. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
2. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
3. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.


There are always going to be mountains, their colossal presence is a fixture that dots our landscape, obstacles that will hinder, that you need to exert more strength to get over. The climb will be tough, exhausting, perhaps leaving you out of breath many times. But the thing about mountains is that there is a maximun height, its finite. And when you reach the top, take a minute to look around you. To take in the beauty of the surroundings. You've become a better person, a stronger person. And having scaled that mountain, you can begin your journey down. But there will always be a higher moutnain to scale.

Are you ready to meet a new challange.

Listen, baby
Ain't no mountain high
Ain't no valley low
Ain't no river wide enough, baby
(The Temptations)

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