Man on journey overcomes obstacles feel like mountains but when looks back they are blades of grass

[Deane Louise]

It’s about a man on a journey overcoming obstacles in the farther along he gets he is climbing huge mountains, but the farther along he gets when he looks back he realizes some of the things that he thought were huge mountains are now just a little blades of grass.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

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