Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

I certainly made mistakes.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

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

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.