Thoreau said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
I came to the mountains on a similar premise. When a climber is asked why he climbs the mountain, the age old reply comes back, “Because it is there.” Some things speak for themselves and most things of deep importance and matter can only be learned by experience. If we allow it, a million and one things will take over, intrude upon our happiness, and keep us from climbing the beautiful mountain set before us.
Life is here, now. Not tomorrow. Not some day in the future. All we have is this moment. Here. Now.
Climb it. Live it. Be.
