The Cairns series · Part 5
Where You’re Standing
Your cairn always comes. What matters is where you’re standing when it does: a weekly check-in on how close you are to your summit.
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What keeps you going? For me, it’s this. When you reach a cairn on a trail, you stop and look around. Can you see the summit? Is it closer than last time?
Life cairns work the same way. Every Thursday at Fazoli’s, I look back at my week. Some weeks I climbed, I’m closer to my goal than I was last Thursday. Some weeks, I slid back. And some weeks, I never left.
Farther away doesn’t mean I failed. It means something’s off, and I need to adjust. And the best part? Next Thursday, the cairn shows up again, wherever I’m standing. So I never ask, is it even worth it anymore? I ask, how much closer do I want to be when I reach my next cairn? Almost every week, my answer is the same. Closer. And when I am, those breadsticks taste a whole lot better.