A Long Way Down

October 4, 2008

It’s a long way down. It seems like I've been climbing, and climbing up a steep hill and now when I look back…it’s such a long way down.

Along the way I've changed. I don’t see things the same way I did before I left. Nothing looks the same these days. But oddly, it’s OK. A man once scared of change is today at ease with it.

I've met and made friends since coming here. I don’t make friends easily, so it has come as a bit of a surprise. Life is funny like that though I guess. When you are looking for red you often will only find blue. And then you realize it was blue all along...

So with more time away on my horizon I am faced with more climbing. I can’t see the summit yet, but I know it’s up there. I’ll keep going as high as I have to. And I won’t turn to look back at the long way down.

-Jim Franks