Therapy
There's nothing like doing something a little dangerous to make you feel alive.
When it snows for days on end here, the snow shoveling trucks who shovel the giant parking lots of big stores like Walmart tend to pile all the snow in the same place every day. This leads to giant mountains of snow and ice at the back of big parking lots. They can sometimes reach 30 feet high. I wish I had a digital camera so you could've seen the one I just climbed:)
These mountains call to me. They fascinate me. They beg me to climb them. I always tell Jesse I want to climb them and she will never let me because she says it's too dangerous.
I finally motivated myself to leave the house once today to run an errand at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. The store ended up being closed, so I thought my trip outside the house was useless, but NO! Everything happens for a reason!! I tried the door of the store, it was locked, I peered inside to see if anyone was there. Then I sighed and turned my head to the right, and there it was! The biggest one I've ever seen, far at the back of the side parking lot, lit only by one tiny street lamp, the hugest glowing pile of snow and ice, BEGGING me to climb it!!
So I did:) I started out slow and step by step. Sometimes you step and the snow gives way and you fall in up to your thigh! Sometimes you step and it's solid ice. Each step is a mini adventure in and of itself. Sometimes you grab at crumbling snow flakes, sometimes at solid handholds. The best feeling in the world is when you reach the top. There was no one around, a dark, silent night, and I became a king atop his castle on a mountain, gazing far and wide upon the sleeping world he ruled! I laughed aloud and marveled at the power and beauty of it all!
I've read Into Thin Air and still I've wondered WHY? Why do men climb Mt. Everest, WHY? Would could be so insane, who could be so mad as to try it? Now I know why. Because even though they may and probably will die trying, if they do happen to reach the top, THE TOP OF THE VERY WORLD ITSELF!, there is no other feeling like it.
I then ran/rolled/tumbled down the other side, made some snow angels on the ground, laughed at how soaking wet my clothes and socks were, and headed home.
When it snows for days on end here, the snow shoveling trucks who shovel the giant parking lots of big stores like Walmart tend to pile all the snow in the same place every day. This leads to giant mountains of snow and ice at the back of big parking lots. They can sometimes reach 30 feet high. I wish I had a digital camera so you could've seen the one I just climbed:)
These mountains call to me. They fascinate me. They beg me to climb them. I always tell Jesse I want to climb them and she will never let me because she says it's too dangerous.
I finally motivated myself to leave the house once today to run an errand at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. The store ended up being closed, so I thought my trip outside the house was useless, but NO! Everything happens for a reason!! I tried the door of the store, it was locked, I peered inside to see if anyone was there. Then I sighed and turned my head to the right, and there it was! The biggest one I've ever seen, far at the back of the side parking lot, lit only by one tiny street lamp, the hugest glowing pile of snow and ice, BEGGING me to climb it!!
So I did:) I started out slow and step by step. Sometimes you step and the snow gives way and you fall in up to your thigh! Sometimes you step and it's solid ice. Each step is a mini adventure in and of itself. Sometimes you grab at crumbling snow flakes, sometimes at solid handholds. The best feeling in the world is when you reach the top. There was no one around, a dark, silent night, and I became a king atop his castle on a mountain, gazing far and wide upon the sleeping world he ruled! I laughed aloud and marveled at the power and beauty of it all!
I've read Into Thin Air and still I've wondered WHY? Why do men climb Mt. Everest, WHY? Would could be so insane, who could be so mad as to try it? Now I know why. Because even though they may and probably will die trying, if they do happen to reach the top, THE TOP OF THE VERY WORLD ITSELF!, there is no other feeling like it.
I then ran/rolled/tumbled down the other side, made some snow angels on the ground, laughed at how soaking wet my clothes and socks were, and headed home.