This picture will forever remind me that I can achieve whatever I set my mind to. It was taken from atop a rocky mountain that I climbed by bare hands, with ZERO experience in climbing and ZERO equipment. I never climbed anything before, as an example, even going on the top of a bulk bed would be a something I would avoid... The climb was vertical and filled with sharp pointy rocks, so from a safety point of view where I could have easily fallen and broke a limb or worst, and by not being in any shape or form athletic, this climb meant that for the following week every muscle of my body, even those I did not know I had, hurt. Hands down, it's one of the craziest and most irresponsible thing I've ever done on the spur of the moment.
Initially, I gave up 3/4 of the way through, scared by the danger and my ineptitude, with my heart pulsing out of my eyes, ears, throat and everywhere I could feel. My face wasn't red, it was purple. My hands shook at every step, and I realized my energy was already gone. And the sun was soon going down.
"I'm done" - I thought, as I sat uncomfortably on a pointy rock watching younger and fitter people passing me by, even though they all confirmed they had underestimated the difficulty too. I sat there for a good twenty minutes. My husband had kept going towards the top with the promise of getting some pictures of the view. As my heartbeat was returning to normal and I had stopped sweating like a cartoon character, I looked up and started to listen to that little (crazy) voice that kept telling me: "Go, you can do this!!" Step after step, rock after rock, slowly I climbed to the top. I don't know what made me happier at that moment, whether it was my husband's expression of surprise or the view that I had almost missed. Either way, that day I learnt a valuable lesson and I took that picture to remind me that I CAN do whatever I set my mind to.
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