Unreachable heights

Why are we such lovers of unreachable heights, what draws us to reach the summit of the mountain when the lowest parts are just as beautiful. Different but beautiful. Why do we feel the need to fly with the birds or reach the highest points. Why do we seek the unobtainable, we crave and search and run in circles, in order to capture the rainbow and the promise of what lies beyond. Happiness is available to us all at the lower heights, beauty is ours to behold in everything we see, if we want to see it. Life can be good without riches, love and to be loved is the greatest wealth of all. The stresses of reaching for the unobtainable that always appears to be within reach, is a battle that attacks our health, and without our health what enjoyment is there if we finally reach the top? No longer reach for the sky, come down and quench our thirst for that which may not exist for us. When we have health, love , friends and family, food on the table and water to drink, so we have reached the heights, without suffering for the unobtainable.

MT,a Daily Guide - Asha Sahana 2006/this article is subject to copyright and may not be used without permission.