I certainly made mistakes.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.