At 14,000 feet, spent and exposed above the tree line, I finally saw what I'd been getting wrong my whole adult life. I'd carried one question up the mountain, "when do I get mine?", and discovered it was actually two questions I'd been running together. One has an answer. The other doesn't. And somewhere between a false summit and the walk back down, I learned why that distinction changes everything.
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