Getting over Mountains

Sometimes, as tall and daunting as the mountains are ahead of you, you stop using your ropes to climb over it. With a tired and halting breath, you start searching for tunnels and shortcuts that might take you over to your destination. At times, in the absense of options that will expedite your journey, you start creating your own. You need to find the gunpowder and an engineer that will help you blow up the rocks to create a passage way. It might be narrow, but through this you will get to the light at the end of the other side. Sounds ingenious doesn't it?

Hold on yet again.

What if you can't locate an engineer because you simply don't have the time or buy gunpowder because its illegal? Faced with the impasse, you have only 2 options- to retreat or continue your journey with the ropes you have.

Should you retreat, all your past labors will amount to nothing. Should you continue, you run the risk of falling and getting hurt, as well as the drain on energy and resources that you continue to acrrue with every step.

But remember that you are not the first who has done this. Many other brave men and women have surmounted the challenges that you have. If they have done it and made it over by telling themselves not to give up on their ropes, why should you either. It might help that you could check to see the tightness of your ropes, the precision of your footsteps and strategy of your advance. They could be faulty, and if so, make the necessary reactifications. Call the engineer not when you are tired, but only after you have really broke the rope, and hurt your ankle.

Its not just the mountain that your need to get over. There will be more ahead of it.