There comes a time when we no longer climb to prove ourselves. We climb because the journey has changed us.
What once felt like an obstacle becomes part of our way of seeing. We carry experience rather than certainty, openness rather than expectation, discernment rather than judgement.
Growth is found less in arrival than in the person we become along the way.
The first mountain teaches us that we can endure. The second teaches us that we can choose.
Not because the path is easier, but because experience has changed the way we walk.
