Day 140o: Along a Worthy Road … (September 16, 2019)
Tennessee’s Highway 126 was exceptionally thin-shouldered at this juncture of the Walk, and very busy to boot at that particular time of day – two traits of which a smooth route never make …
“Every good pilgrim knows well that the road that is smooth and straight leads to everywhere but a destination worthy or important … For it is weakness that needs a safe path to arrive anywhere, whereas strength needs only the ground itself … Adventure works in any strand for this with the daring to live with integrity – it ever calls to those who care more for living than for their own lives … And so it is that both the honor and the ultimate benefit belong to those who choose to actually enter the arena, those who strive valiantly; those who know life’s greater enthusiasums and its greater devotions, those who spend themselves exhaustingly for a cause greater than themselves. They are the ones who at best know the triumph of highest achievement; and who, at worst – even if they fail – know the solace of a life well lived. For if they fail they have failed while daring greatly, and their place shall never be with those more souls more selfish (& thus more timid) who know neither victory nor defeat.” ~ inspired by Vincent Nwachukwu, Mehmet Ildan, Amal El-Mohtar & Theodore Roosevelt
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