Mountain

Land
Moves up
To the sky

Earth
between
low and high

Climb
Keep on
Don’t stop

Until
We reach
The sky

***

I remember that the Lubavitcher Rebbe compared life to climbing a mountain.

When you’re on a mountain, you can go either up, or down. Generally you can’t stay in the middle.

Similarly, life involves constantly climbing, constantly striving to do better, to accomplish more.

The Rebbe’s mother related that when the Rebbe was a child, he and his friends were climbing a tree. She saw that her son climbed higher than all his friends. When she asked him how he was able to climb so much higher than his friends, he replied, “They looked down and got scared. I only looked up.”