Climbing New Paths

A Very Steep Path The image is simple: you are climbing a very steep and narrow trail.

Sometimes the path becomes so slippery that every step threatens your life, and still—you continue.

Because this is the mission you set for yourself, this is what you want to do with

your life: to climb a steep path. It is hard, but deeply fulfilling.

And there are other people on that same path, and on parallel ones.

Suddenly, those same people begin pushing you off the trail. You don’t understand

why— yet they keep going. You begin to slip, you try to grab onto anything:

a bush, a rock sticking out— but it’s not enough. Sometimes the fall