The theme of the day is mud and rocks

Today is sponsored by Advil. 

Rowardenan-Inverarnan 

Friday September 2, 2016

 

Day 3 was hard. And long. And I was tired. But then a bit of Advil. A whole lotta well here we go. And off again...

 

Today was muddy. And and so many rocks. All the rocks really. Some large ones helping you to cross streams or rivers. Others to cross mud pits. Some to form alms or staircases up and down parts of the hills (surely designed for people much taller than me). And some just to be in the way. 

It got me thinking about obstacles. Those we put in our own way, making our journeys more difficult and those we see as obstacles but are actually there to help us. We encounter both all the time. And some of the way obstacles give way to he coolest things (like finding Rob Roy's cave) and some ease our passage (like crossing some of those streams) and some we make out the be worse than they would have been. 

I was trying to avoid a bit of mud (although by that point there was no reason to. I was very very muddy). And so I stepped to the side on a large rock. Turns out the rain that had made the mud also made the rock slippery. And I fell. Not far or particularity hard (which is lucky as I was walking near a very large drop off down to Loch Lomond) but fall I did. Into a thorn bush. All trying to avoid the simplest of obstacles. A little bit of mud. Scratched up I learned that lesson but wondered about all the other times I (and I'm sure others) make things harder on ourselves then we really need to. 

Somedays you just gotta go through some mud.