Summit

To wish a life without the slant upward is to wish a dim life without the excitement of rising without effort, just jostling on the shore.To climb is to experience the ascent itself-in all its moments of revelations-the heart-break, the fatigue, the peak within, the footprints left by so many civilisations, how co-hikers grow thinner and thinner until you are the only alpinist. You see something of your own soul in the plants, animals and birds that no museums could hold what nature so effortlessly creates.That many paths lead to the top but there's only one summit-love, is the epiphany.