Some People Climb Everest; I Hike My Desk
10:00 PMIt's been said that behind every great man is a Tenzing Norgay. Behind me are ten.
Many try to scratch the itch of ambition with the satisfaction of goals which can actually be achieved.
Walking on the moon.
Discovering non-carbon-based life.
Falling in love and drowning there.
President of the World?
Contrary to the social norms and conventions which traditionally define success, I look to Sisyphus. That guy (albeit involuntarily) attempted to do the impossible. That smarts of the kind of irrational optimism this world desperately craves.
So, too, will I. I will hike my desk. A infinite number of miles over a finite (working) lifetime. Each mile down a mile no closer to the goal.
But I'll do it.
Because it's there.
Many try to scratch the itch of ambition with the satisfaction of goals which can actually be achieved.
Walking on the moon.
Discovering non-carbon-based life.
Falling in love and drowning there.
President of the World?
Contrary to the social norms and conventions which traditionally define success, I look to Sisyphus. That guy (albeit involuntarily) attempted to do the impossible. That smarts of the kind of irrational optimism this world desperately craves.
So, too, will I. I will hike my desk. A infinite number of miles over a finite (working) lifetime. Each mile down a mile no closer to the goal.
But I'll do it.
Because it's there.
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