It felt insurmountable, like the system was really rigged against me.
Like many of today's challenges, fixing our educational system feels insurmountable, largely because it's often viewed as a political problem.
Even now, when something feels insurmountable, I remember how it felt to sit near the exit of a tiny plane and see the North and South Islands thousands of feet below.
Really, they have heard about everything, it seems, so that presenting the novel, the outré, the unforeseen, quickly becomes a challenge that feels insurmountable.
Maybe you're facing a problem that feels insurmountable.
There have been days when I've left my wife with the kids while I locked myself in the bathroom with tears streaming down my face, nights when my kids will want to play horsey and the weight of my own legs feels insurmountable.
Most of my salary went to paying her tuition, but it never felt insurmountable.
The gift of presence is certainly not a low-cost investment; the energy required to pull away from our Facebook feeds and abandon our email inboxes is formidable, in fact most days it feels simply insurmountable.
"Lose weight, exercise more, eat better… These are what we might think of as anemic intentions because they are so vague as not to have any real strength or force," Tim says, "So, it's not so much that these goals feel insurmountable because of pressure, but that they're are typically our most difficult because we have failed many times before".
"Even small distances in those situations can feel insurmountable".
A few years' experience can make that chasm feel insurmountable.
