"No one can really pull you up very high -- you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains." - Louis Brandeis

"No one can really pull you up very high -- you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains." - Louis Brandeis

Sort of like: "You can give man a fish and he can eat for a day OR you can teach a man to fish and he will eat forever"...to paraphrase badly. But the note of the quote is the same. If someone "gives" it to you - you just don't value it...or lose your grip. Also, you have no ability to recreate/reproduce it. Its presence in your life was not earned with experience...therefore you have no ability to cause it on your own. Worse, you run the risk of being dependent or even addicted to the giver/puller.

This alludes to the "failure" of our culture to embrace and encourage "failure"! Its this fear of failure that makes us "easy road to riches", quick-fix kind of world. There is no ebracement of "hard" work or practice or development/training. We want our fame and glory now...so we will take the pull up or the free fish for today...and to heck with the consequences or the termporariness of the "fix"!

- Economic stiumulus or real analysis of and acceptance of the true impact of our bankrupted economic structure/lifestyle!

- So you didn't make it to third or even fourth place...here's a "participation" badge...don't worry, winning isn't everything!

- Here's another diet promising that you will lose 20-lbs in 7-days!

Instantaneous fortune/fame....youtube! Your 15-seconds of fame has been reduced to 15-nanoseconds....but it's yours! Take it!

Its not unlike "our" American cultural fear of depression. Take a pill. Eat! Drink! Do anything, but don't face yourself and your thoughts. Run from it! Turn on the tv or watch youtube and it will all be better!!!!

IT'S TIME TO PULL OURSELVES UP...TO LEARN TO FISH....TO CONQUER MOUNTAINS...ONE STEP AT A TIME!