The View From The Top Of The Hill
View from the top is beautiful. While we all covet to reach that vantage point, we do not realize till we reach the top that it is lonely up there. Let us focus on the journey instead on the goal.
I'm standing at the top of the mountain and looking down at you.
I can see you crawling up, step by step, your knees scratched, oozing blood,
Holding a protrusion here and a crack on the face of the rock wall there and stepping on the ledge, trying to cross the overhang.
I can see you struggling to come up to where I am.
The sun is setting behind my back,
And producing a false halo behind my head that you can see and are attracted to;
As I saw the false halo of another man sitting at the top,
While I climbed my way up, crawling on the mountain, bloody, tired, scratching my knees and elbows, my whole body aching.
I know, like most, you think it is great to be at the top of the mountain, a position coveted by all;
And you are trying your best to be at the top despite all the troubles and setbacks you encounter on your way up.
You left your mate, family, friends, and fellow travelers far behind to keep your dream to the top.
You are now alone in the world, with your fears and climbing with no one to share your life with once you reach the top;
No one to share their shoulders when you need to rest and some solace from your troubles;
Yet you keep climbing, fooled by the halo behind me.
Now, you are facing the rock wall as you climb up, barely hanging on with your dear life on a jutting projection on the rock, fearful that you might not make it.
You cannot enjoy the views as you climb up and miss the best part of the journey!
The lush landscape below, the wind on your face that can cool your perspiring brows;
The eagle that floats just above your head effortlessly;
That flower that blooms in the crevices of the hard rock face despite all odds.
You ignore the pleasure of the journey, too obsessed with reaching the destination.
But I know how lonely it is at the top, without family and friends to share the views from the top.
The higher you come, the lonelier you become.