Life is a journey. Consciousness is a journey. Climbing is a journey. A journey is a journey. Everything is a journey and that’s the important part, not the destination. The destination is just the beginning of another journey.
So, while climbing, you better focus in the journey, on enjoying your climb, the different kind of grips, the sensations, the sequences, the obstacles… Watch your mind, take the chance to know yourself better. That’s what really matters. Once you got it to the top, is going to be satisfying of course, but it`s not going to last. You may enjoy the relief of the tension and the views for a moment but you will naturally start the next journey. It is just the beginning of a new process in which you are going to select a new target, a new purpose to have the next trip. A whole new experience, probably based on the previous one.
Then, the destination doesn’t really matter. You have to enjoy the process. You will spend most of the time there, much more than the time you will spend on the destination (before a new start).
When you understand this, you can free yourself from following a specific purpose where you won’t enjoy the process. It is a very useful criterion to select our goals.
The destination used to be an illusion and once you get it, it is going to push you towards another one. And this is an infinite macro-process. So, you better select your goals based on how much you want to commit with the process to reach them.
In climbing, how can I select my projects based on the process?
Well, basically it depends on your motivations at the moment. If your motivation (or journey) is just to have fun, just select projects where you know it is easy for you to enjoy. Even if it doesn’t mean it is an easy project.
If you are more interested in getting better in a specific kind of climbing, in a specific kind of rock or whatever, go for it and enjoy. The purpose of this post was just to reflect on the system we have to pick our goals, that maybe it wasn’t based on the process, it might be based on getting to some point who knows why.