Enjoy the View

Over the last few weeks, I have seen that waiting for a particular email to arrive on a certain day is counter productive to writing.  Yesterday I was looking at writing about something in the contents of the James Clear email.  But it arrived too late.  But the next day I could consider it and write if there was anything I thought worth writing about.
This time a Harold V. Melchert was quoted as saying, “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.”
Mountain climbing is not one thing that has every really on my “to do” list.  In Townsville I did climb the gap between a couple of peaks in Castle Hill.  That was a weird one.  It was a few feet short of being a mountain and one guy took it upon himself to take soil to the top to make it a mountain.  I never heard how that panned out, but it is still called Castle Hill.
But I do like the point being made. To me goals are good and reaching them is desirable.  But to me so too is the journey desirable.  Attaining goals are all the sweeter for savouring the journey to attainment.  I will never pretend that things are all smooth and without challenge.  In fact, I sort of hold to the fact that often the harder something is to achieve the sweeter it is in achieving.
Yet to me it is also true that shuttered vision often causes me to miss what is most memorable along the journey.  All the best journeys to me are full of both wonder and challenge.  The attaining of a goal is enhanced by the memories of how I got there.