15-12-2015 / Pinnacle

Pinnacle

The dictionary defines the word "Pinnacle" as:

"the highest point of development or achievement"

At first glance, "pinnacle" is the best someone or something can be or do. 

Of course, there's the literal sense of "the highest point" and everything on this universe has a maximum altitude it can reach.

But let's step back for a minute and take the figurative sense applied to us. 

Who sets our personal pinnacle? 

What happens when you reach what you think is your pinnacle and linger in it? 

You develop a comfort zone, which is one of the most obvious yet sly traps in the universe; you enclose yourself in a point where you're comfortable enough because you're fine with it and have the skill to keep it going.

The problem with comfort zones is that they crumble with no warning and you end up noticing that you're no longer as good as you think you were because time moved forward without you and thus, things changed.

When I took this picture, the mountain in it was the pinnacle on Earth, but that is not correct. The sky could be considered the actual pinnacle, but then again, if we think of our planet in the cosmic sense, I'm still wrong, the stars are. 

But those stars can be planets, asteroids, actual stars or something else, so the mere concept of "stars in the sky" is not truly the pinnacle.

The same applies to us. Our current pinnacle is not the actual one. There will always be something higher to aspire to be or do.

Even the highest mountain is still far away from the pinnacle. Stars comes close to it, but the only one who can truly reach the actual pinnacle, reach what is beyond,  is one self.

In part, that's why I'm doing this blog, it's a way for me to reach again the pinnacle I had and this time, I won't box myself in it. I will keep going to reach what's beyond. 

Be your own captain and don't let events, people or life hold you back from reaching your pinnacle.


Definition source: Merriam-Webster

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