Today I embark on the journey of a lifetime,

Scaling the face which told a thosand tales,

A thousand nightmares,

A lonely face covered by a white blanket,

The crying face of Mount Fear,

I inhale as I take the initial step,

The step onwards and upwards towards the light,

The scorching bright future that awaits me atop the steep incline,

As I climb I see years worth of fear and pain melt away before my eyes,

I am urged on by this as if it were a strong wind pushing me forward,

Pushing me forward towards the summit,

Facing fear head on and leaving it behind in a pool of its own doubt,

Just as it did to me everyday,

As I climb higher towards the crisp blue sky I notice specs of sunlight glisten off of the snow covered wonder,

In a cave of ice I see my nightmares dance and unfold,

Every fear of failure and rejection I have longed to erase from my memory,

Yet as I escape I see the ice begin to shatter and fall away,

Digging my heels into the snow crushing my fears into oblivion,

Aching arms show the valuable energy and force that I have lost worrying about the horrors of my past,

As I reach for the last block of devistation,

I see it,

The singular nightmare which has left me buckled over in tears,

The fear of the pain I have caused those who mean the most to me,

The pain of how much I have hurt the most important people in my life,

I take the penultimate steps,

Staring longingly at the peak,

Wathing the last few flakes melt away beneath my shoes,

Then... As if I had never seen before,

I open my eyes, let out a scream of relief and watch the world below rush by,

The the mountai begins to shrink away,

Shrink away to the size of a pebble,

I dismount and throw the pebble into the coral sea,

Watching as it sinks down to become just another part of the se bed.