Mountain Reasoning

September 18

The reason it’s a mountain isn’t the tectonic plates. It’s not the metamorphic rock or the countless glacial erratics, archaic forces stacked on top of eachother.

The reason it’s a mountain isn’t the elevation gain on the path, taking switchback after switchback up to an impossibly high place.

The reason it’s a mountain isn’t because it peaks out beyond the treeline, pushing into thinner and thinner air as mother nature herself struggles to keep up.

The reason it’s a mountain is because nobody gets to climb it for free. Because everyone has to face obstacles to gain it. And nobody gets out of facing it unscathed. 

How much of our time is spent trying to make it easier to climb something whose purpose is to be difficult to climb?

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