The Tumbling

Life begins at the crest of a mountain, where everything is at its most simple. Then we tumble down the side, gathering choice and dilemma and opportunity, growing into an enormous and complicated mass that tumbles faster and faster. Things speed past us as we fall, and we start to notice what we missed and can't return for. At the very end of our lives, at the base of the mountain, we are only what we've accumulated along the way. We are not what we wanted to be. Not completely. Only the luckiest and the liars.