finish line

ben

He set out a trail to find a very important area in the mountain. He started joyfully as if he was fully ready for the task he was about to accomplish. Geared with mountaineering gadgets, he walked on his first course at its lowest level. Luckily, he graduated. The second course was a little tiring with a few obstacle along the way. Again, he triumphantly went to the next and proceeded. The third one got really exhausting. He had drunk almost all the water in his bag-pack but still he couldn't see any sign of the area he would like to reach. He walked more. The fourth was a total hell for him because it took most of his energy as he tread the tricky way up the mountain. He felt so fatigued. His body couldn't continue anymore. His readied things might not be able to complete his course going to the end point any longer. He finally gave up and went back home despondently. Only then he knew that he only had almost 2 kilometers before he could have seen the place he planned to hit.

In life, there are times that we feel tired fighting and reaching for our dreams. There are moments that we lose hope when we face big mountains that come our ways as we walk up to the finish line. When we feel discouraged, disappointed, or disheartened, we tend to just give up and don't want to continue anymore. When we cannot see any hint or sign of going to that destination we planned to arrive at, we become powerless and hopeless.

There could be no more saddest than the story of this man who gave up when the finish line was already at hand.