This is your Everest

I picked up a magazine that did an article on Reinhold Messner, one of the greatest mountain climbers known on the world. As I read it, and looked at the photos, I felt that familiar longing to push myself beyond on my limits. Somewhere deep inside me I feel a desire to test myself, to find my maximum capacity and see if I can go beyond what I think that I can. I desire to test myself, and see if I stay straight, bend, or break. I want to know me. I want to know who I am, and I want to be comfortable with it.

As I am contemplating this desire and its source, a voice within my heart speaks. It says:

This is your Everest