Mount Everest
On April 28 in my blog entitled ‘Frustration,’ I was talking about de-cluttering both practically and emotionally, learning to let go of things that we shouldn’t be hanging on to. To move forward pursuing that goal or dream that, we have been harboring for all too long.
Since then I have been pre occupied with the #bringbackourgirls campaign in Nigeria and both the girls and mothers are in my prayers as I think of this horrendous situation. How indeed the poor girls who were quite simply at school, preparing for their future and whatever dreams and ambitions they had in mind, until life was suddenly terribly disrupted by their kidnapping. Three weeks later and an astonishing 200 girls are still missing. The outcry has to be why wasn’t action taken immediately that this happened by the Nigerian government? Of course my prayer is that these girls are found and quickly returned to their families, as is the cry of thousands of people since a social media campaign highlighted this globally, embarrassing the Nigerian government to be more pro-active.
When these girls return home – let’s be positive, they will return home – there will be a huge amount of emotional baggage and scars that this situation will clearly have inflicted upon them and their families. Time is a great healer and hopefully with God’s help, somehow they will get back to normal life and be able to move on.
Meanwhile moving on, and back to Everest. I started to think about the challenge of such a climb and the analogy of how we all need to dump stuff from our past whether that be practical stuff, relationships or emotions.
As for those actually climbing the mountain listen to this;-
At 26,000 feet it is the highest and most unsavory rubbish dump in the world. Most of the Everest junk is abandoned oxygen cylinders, tents, sleeping bags, ropes, tin cans and cameras. But there are also the bodies of many who didn’t make it. At least 100 people have died on the mountain since it was first scaled in 1953. Most bodies have been brought down or pushed into crevasses. But conditions are too severe for climbers to give any thought to burying the dead. Most simply lie where they died.
So whether your thoughts are with the missing girls this week, you’re thinking of dumping a boyfriend and moving on or training for some great sporting feat.
I’ll leave you with your thoughts.
Chat soon.
Anna
