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I have climbed mountains before, but this climb was unlike any other I’d experienced; no map, no trail, no other people. We set out from our campsite with the Ribdon River valley stretched out before us. Like a meal spread out on the table, the various aspects of the climb were there to behold: the valley and its empty, wind-swept expanse; the river, rushing silently in the distance; the willow thickets surrounding it, and the imposing mountain that stood huddled over the valley like a great god, or a beloved, yet intimidating grandfather.  \nAfter we made our way through the willows lining the river we hiked alongside the creek that fed it from the fold of the mountain, ascending. The earth was at a forty-five-degree angle, the moss springy and unstable. Everybody had a tough time. We crossed a creek, hopping rock to rock as the cold water rushed below us. While some were able to cross easily, others had more difficulty. The sure-footed helped the people who had more difficulty across. I remember, in particular, being impressed with Jen (a member of our group) . Seeing as she is shorter, she probably had the most difficulty of anyone. She fell, hard, got wet and cold, but didn’t care about the bruises and pain-fought and did not heed the wounds. It may have been easy for me to cross that river, but in a circumstance in which I would have difficulty, I would like to possess the strength and will Jen showed.  \nAfter we crossed, we climbed. There were three knobs to the mountain. Being on its sheer faces, tired and burning, feels good. I climbed with others and alone.  \nEach time I neared a knob, I thought it was the final summit until I reached it and saw there was another. This is much like life. Unlike movies and tales may lead us to believe, it is not possible to achieve perfect happiness. You cannot control all that life will fling your way; you cannot really even control yourself. There will always be another peak, another storm, another trial. This conundrum is one I have wrestled with since a child. While I grew from a baby to a boy, my parents’ marriage grew apart. I watched as they lost each other, their family, their happiness, and even themselves. I watched them dip into deep lows, came to understand the line between sanity and insanity is more blurred than we like to believe. And always, I  \nwondered about the dark, dark clouds that invariably form (and hopefully dissipate) over the expanse of a life.  \nHow, then, to ensure this didn’t happen to me? This question is the topic of millennia of philosophy, the work of years of psychotherapy, an answer sought by innumerable scientific studies. In short, it is a longer answer than there is space for in this paper. There is one answer, however, that relates to the experience I’ve recounted and our work in Ignatian pedagogy.  \nIt seems a key to happiness is the ability to do without it. In the words of John Stuart Mill, nothing except that ability “can raise a person above the chances of life by making him feel that, let fate and fortune do their worst, they have not the power to subdue him.” Once felt, this frees one from excess anxiety about the evils of life, and enables one “to cultivate in tranquility the sources of satisfaction readily available to him, without concerning himself about the uncertainty of their duration.”(Mill, Utilitarianism pp. 16)  \nWhat is an example of a source of satisfaction readily available? As we crossed the  \nvalley of the Ribdon, on our way back to camp, a thunderstorm raged. The dark clouds roiled in the sky like the stormy periods of one’s life. Yet colliding with those clouds was the sun. God was speaking to me. It was a beautiful symbol, for the trials of life, for the duress of the climb and promise of the waiting hearth. I felt overwhelmed with something other than myself, and a few tears shook out. 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