OK, so maybe I wasn't on top of the entire world when I climbed to the peak of Mt. Elbert in Colorado when I was a teenager, but I was virtually on the top of the country.
Mt. Elbert (14,433 feet tall) is the second-tallest mountain in the continental United States behind Mt. Whitney in California (14,505 feet tall). And I climbed to the highest rock on the very top and just stood there surveying the scenery and breathing the (very little, yet very satisfying) mountain air before signing the book they have at the top for those who make it to the top.
It took me the better part of a day to climb to the top, but it was a huge accomplishment for me. I was lucky that it was a cloudy day, however, because I remember I had thought I was at the top four times before realizing I had much farther to climb. Had I seen how far I had yet to go, I feel like I would have felt quite despondent and may have even given up.
This is something I don't like about myself - that I have such lofty goals at times, yet give up too easily. But I'm not going to do it with this blog (I'm nearly a third of the way to writing a blog post a day for a year, and am determined to keep it up) and want to continue this trend with other, future projects and endeavors.
I am my biggest obstacle. All I have to do is not stand in my own way so I can figuratively be on top of the world with whatever I set out to accomplish in the future.
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