Life is a Mountain Range

Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone.
-- Anonymous

One of the most important lessons in life is that if you wish to succeed, you must first fail.
In order to achieve our goals in life, we must put in the efforts with the expectation to succeed, but with the understanding that we may also fail. And then if we do fail, we must not get discouraged, but instead try again.

If at first we cannot climb the mountain before us, we must try again for reaching the top is ever important if we are to continue on with our life.

Our lives are filled with mountains
Some are big and some are small
To live the most fruitful life
We must conquer them all
Often we try to climb the slope
But slip and fall back down
We may wallow in self pity
And carry ourselves with a frown
But we must try again and again
To reach the mountain's crown
If we don't get across the mountain
And reach the valley next
We'll never get anywhere in life
Or become our very best
The mountains each range in height
The valleys each range in depth
We beam with pride on top of the peaks
But in the lowest valleys we're bereft
Lost in the valley's dark shadows
Many valleys though, are not that deep
And are wide flat meadows of grass
For life often has uneventful points
Through these we travel easy and fast
Some people seem to have shortcuts
Their mountains have quick tunnels
But beware if you find these caves
Yours could be a dark and twisted funnel
For not every tunnel is a shortcut
Some are just a winding maze
Making you lost within your mountain
Until you can find your way through the haze
Even they who seem to have it easy
Have their own mountains to climb
Even if now they are in a wide valley
The next mountain is only a matter of time
Life is not just a walk down a path
It is an adventure filled with tribulations
But we become better people for them
And we mustn't overlook every jubilation
We have our many ups
We have our many downs
Despite every trial we have
The joys of life abound.
-- KO

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