After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There are only two ways down: the steps to defeat or the dive to victory.
You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid.
At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving.
Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.
~ A Gift of Wings