Our Limitations...
Before setting out on my journey, I would have looked upon many of the hills I have faced so far and said that there was no way I could climb them. And I would have been right, not because I couldn't have climbed them, but because I believed that I couldn't have climbed them.
But I did climb them.
And I continued to climb them and each day I continue to climb hills that I never thought I could climb. Not without a great deal of effort, anyway.
I started thinking about the other 'hills' in my life which I had looked upon and decided I could not 'climb' and which I never attempted. I started to realize that it wasn't the hill that was preventing me from achieving my goal. It was the limitations I had accepted about myself.
Anyone who has hiked a really long distance will tell you ways that their journey has changed him and I can understand that now. But it wasn't so much that the journey changed the individual as it was how the journey changed the individual's perception of himself.
Today, I still see those high hills and my brain says, "Nope.. ain't gonna happen." But then I ponder for a moment that I have already done many of these climbs and so I plod on and do them. I wonder how many other things in my life I have fallen short of completing because of the limitations I have imposed upon myself.
Ron
posted by Ron Jaffe @ 9:21 PM
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From one who often lives in a "valley", I can appreciate your perspective. Somehow life's daunting enough,why not give yourself an "out"? Yet restrictions themselves are pressures. And the more we add on ourselves, the harder it becomes to move at all. This is true, not only physically, but emotionally, mentally and spiritually, as well. You have a very real sense of what it takes to "climb". And plenty of time now to consider where else you may apply that. And you are affecting alot of us vicariously, my friend. Folks you know and many you don't. We are vicariously along for your journey and can't help but consider what we may have placed as limitations in our own lives. And whether we have the courage and strength to remove them and begin our own "climb". Ron Jaffe... Inspiration in Motion.
<};-) Peace~
Hey Muddy Shoes,
Came home for a few days to hang out with my roommate before he ships out to basic. My brother is going to take me back out to Tray Mountian on the 22nd. Maybe by then we might have some leaves on the trees. Being in the woods for just two weeks sure makes you appriciate good food and a soft bed. Maybe I might catch up with you after a while, maybe near Damascus. Let me tell you there are some good folks coming up behind you. Watch out for Jesse, real cool guy, but you will only see him once because he is punching out 20s. Also look out for the biography that Dutch said he is going to write about me.
Grizzley Bear
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