is a quote regarding the oft-stated allegory of the mountain that stands between ourselves and our goals:
... most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination. Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes. Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others that there's no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as their are individual souls.
I am not too sure what my mountain is as I don't have definite goals in my life. I do have vague ideas of what to do with my time and am thinking strongly that my daily job, my life, lies along the lines of learner/educator, writer, and engineer. These 'jobs' neatly capture (I believe) the aspects of software development. Then, my mountain lies in this sphere of software development ... but with what specific goal? Yet to be defined.
I can say that I have been exploring the foothills of the software development mountain. I am recognising numerous routes over the mountain and the tools required to traverse the hard parts of the climb. Relating back to the quote, I am probably currently in the camp of listening to others who have made the climb. Books, blogs, podcasts all provide stories on how the mountain has been conquered. When I do set off it is likely to be an attempt at forging my own route, guided, in part, from the stories I have read and to which I have listened.
But, before I can make a real, concerted attempt at scaling the mountain I need to state my goals and have a reason for the climb. I shall return to this soon.
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