Getting over it…

Say you’re about to hike up a mountain. At the foot of the trail, you stop, check your gear, and take a peak at the summit.  “Omigod, it’s so big!” you tell yourself.  “I’ll never make it!”

You may be right, so you start to doubt yourself.  You even begin to formulate your answer to the question folks will ask you when you get back home, namely, “Did you make it all the way?”  You begin to wonder what gripped you to do this in the first place.  And you’ll certainly never try it again.

You can feel your sense of adventure, not to mention your self-confidence, ebbing away, perhaps indefinitely.

Now, let’s try this again.

You’re about to hike up a mountain.  At the foot of the trail, you and your friends pause, check gear, and cast your eyes upward to see the peak.  “Yikes!” someone says.  “That’s not so bad, says another.  “Well make it,” says a third.

And off you go.

Something about the mountain does not seem so high when you are standing at the base of it with friends.

Get it?

Ralph

(Thanks to Laur Fisher for the idea behind this post.)