Life is like a journey up a giant mountain. All our life we spend looking towards the summit—a beacon of strength that draws us towards it with unending endurance. Along the way we encounter crevasses and avalanches, rock slides and storms but our focus on the summit keeps us going. Eventually we reach the summit and look around to see that there is no higher peak. This is it. We can’t get any higher. We then realise we must descend and in every direction we look down, north, south, east and west, we see only one thing—our own death. This is the critical moment of self-realisation when a boy
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