"I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"
Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking
But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high
There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb....."
and like that the song continues....
Thats a song sung by Miley Cyrus for her movie Hannah Montanna, A good movie for teen girls of 12-14. But not the song, it is great song, not because of its music & the lyrics but the passion invested in the song by once so innocent Miley. Now this article here is not to sing the tutelage of Miley Cyrus or the grandiose of her character Hannah Montanna, but to derive the emotion of the song.
The song has a very important message engraved in it, it talks about the battle of life.....
"Life is tough, thats a given,when you stand up, you gonna be shoved back down, when you are down, you are gonna be stepped on. You will fall down, you will stumble and you will get pushed and land square on our face. But every time you fall down, you get back on your feet, you get up as fast as you can and as many times as it requires. Remember this, success has been and continues to be defined as getting up one more time that you have been knocked down."
What I said might sound very motivating and might reel you up a bit but I am not here to preach what every motivational speaker in the world does, its their job not mine. My job is, to reflect on how this song describes the very things said above. It compares the life we live to that of a mountaineer and symbolizes the journey of life as THE CLIMB!!
Carrying this symbolism into the moot point of this article I would like to bring out a given fact, every mountain has a peak! If our life is a climb and the mountain is our ambition/goal then there has to be a peak in it. This peak is the same peak that we find people so often referring to. Everyone talks of it as a great thing, a much desired thing, as if it was the best thing that happened to them. Do we wait to ponder the flipside of it?
Consider this quote for a moment...
"We've been comfortable aspiring to championship. I don't know how comfortable we are as champions."
-Alan Shore, Boston Legal.
We work our whole life to attain an ulterior goal, and climb the climb with our best efforts to reach it. But what happens when we do reach it? Funny question one can say. Why? We celebrate!! That I will give you, we do celebrate for once, but what do we do when the hubbub subsides and the party is broken?
I don't know about you but when I attained something that I had been working on for a long time, and when it eventually got over, I was at a complete loss, rather than feeling rejoiced by the success, I was hounded by the emptiness that was created. I found asking myself, what now? You see its hard to rekindle the flame and form a burning desire to attain something with the same intensity and fervor. Without the fire from within you won't do it. So this begs the question how to rekindle the flame?How?
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More to come later.
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