
You can do a lot more than you think you can. As you progress and start achieving bigger and bigger goals, you start to see life’s triviality get smaller and smaller. I can’t stress this enough. Once you do something like this, it really creates an inner calm, about everything. That person playing annoyingly loud music on the subway? No biggie, it’ll end soon. That horrible drive with traffic? It’ll end soon. It’s something you have for life. But this doesn’t happen on a whim, you have to be bold enough to …
…Me, for weeks leading up to the climb and I couldn’t help but hear his voice more than a few times. And I was thinking of a competitive female runner that I recently read about who had valiantly lost her life to cancer at the age of 37 or something very young. She was a savage all through her fight against cancer and her husband was as well. She’ll never have a chance to do this kind of thing. I do, let’s do it for her.