The Climb

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, It is our light not our darkest that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world, there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that the people won't feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do, It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same, as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Coach Carter.


Now this is something.

I read that and my mind started buzzing with new information.

Powerful beyond measure, we are all powerful beyond measure, this is simply amazing. All this life is asking from us, is to root for each other and allow the best we can be to come forward without shame.
I love this quote.

This blog and all my "figuring out", lets everyone know, I am flawed and that it is normal and ok to be that way. We all make mistakes, we all suffer and we are all struggling to be more, and yet we are afraid to be more because what if we climb back up, and leave the people we love behind, what happens then?

The answer is simple.

You don't climb alone.

You pull and you claw and you fight to bring everyone up with you. Some people are less afraid than others and may climb without fear towards the top, while others stumble at the bottom, afraid to reach for the first stone. The confident climbers, they need to reach back and take the hand of the fearful and pull them up with everything they have and then place their hands on a stone and continue to climb. Eventually they will start to climb, because they love you and want to be with you, and because you love them enough to bring them along.


Everyone in our lives has such potential, EVERYONE...(yes even you reading this blog). They just have to remember the passions they had as a child, before it got hard, before life stepped in and made us conform to the "norm".
Remember who you are. If you can't remember, surround yourself with people who do. Ask the climbers to reach back and take your hand and help you climb until you start to remember how to lift yourself up.
Let your people, carry you.

I am remembering that girl, with her hopes and dream and her passion. Everyday I am reaching up for another stone, and looking back to see who needs help, because when we all reach the top and look around at the beauty around us, I don't want to be alone in that place.

I want to be surrounded by other climbers, who are smiling and happy and...whole.

Lets climb shall we?