A Three Year Goal!!!!

This year I had the opportunity to go to Bonita Park near Ruidoso with the Mayfield Orchestra for the third time. When I heard that they had a 65' tower rock wall, I immediately set a goal to climb it to the top. Every year for three years I have gotten sick while we were there. The funny thing is we have gone each year during different seasons in the year and the sicknesses have had different symptoms as well. The timing was always just perfect for me to get sick. So this year on Friday I felt really sick, and I stayed in bed and tried to get better. Around ten Mrs. DaSilva, who was a chaperon, came to check on me and told me that my group was at the zip-line/ rock wall. I had missed the chance to do it for the past two years, but I still wasn't feeling well and so I went back to sleep and Mrs. DaSilva left. Not too long after that I decided that no matter what I was going to go climb that wall. So I got ready for the day and met up with my group down at the rock wall area. I immediately was on the rock wall and climbing. It seemed too easy at first and I was climbing really fast. I was so close to the top, when I slipped and fell. The lady holding on to the rope caught me and didn't let me fall far. I was out of breath and my hands were tired. I still didn't feel well,but I knew I had to make it to the top. From below I heard my team encouraging me and I knew coming down without reaching the top was not an option. I kept screaming to the lady holding the rope "Just don't let me go! Just don't let me go!" over and over again. Then I looked over and there was a guy on the side of the wall looking over from the zip-line platform. He also gave me encouragement, especially because I kept falling at the same points on the wall. He said something that stuck in my head. He told me the next four hand holds I should do and then he said "Just grab those four and that's all you have to do." So I did it!!   made it to the top and I rang the cowbell to show I had done it. But what I realized from those simple words "and that all you have to do" is that as we are going along in life, we reach points where we get stuck and we fall countless times. But when we have a plan to get through them, and we make the challenge seem possible, eventually we can make our goal. And it doesn't matter whether we do it the first time, or it takes us multiple times. If we try our best that is all we can ask of ourselves. This year in my life, I feel like I am taking on a rock wall challenge metaphorically. I know that somethings will be easy, but other things will be hard and I will fall. I know that when I fall and things seem too hard for me, that I can endure through it. I am especially not looking forward to catching up from the days I missed, but when I do my best, like I did on the rock wall, then I can be proud of all things that are accomplished. I plan on enduring to the end no matter what challenges arise!

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