Count Your Blessings #60 – “Views that will last forever”

All of my blessings posts seem to be prompted by something I am reading or by an event that happens in my life. This one is now exception.

The title of this post – “views that will last forever” – is something that Jonathan said after a special day for the two of us and it really struck me.

This last week has been a holiday week for the Chastney family, one that we spent catching up on family primarily. First to Graham’s Mum and Dad’s and then on to Sue’s Mum and Dad’s. Sue’s Mum and Dad live in the beautiful Lake District town of Keswick and while there I try to take in some of the countryside. This time I felt a real need to break out of the mold a bit and do something a bit more dramatic. I didn’t really want to do this alone so pulled Jonathan into the plan. And the plan was this; whatever the weather we would climb a mountain, preferably one of the big ones. My personal dream was that we would climb Helvellyn and do it up Striding Edge because I had never been up that side.

The day of the climb came and in true Lake District weather fashion it was raining, but we had made our plan and we weren’t going to change now.

There are two thing I have learnt about Lake District weather. The first is that you should always stick with your plan because it can change in minutes. The second is that Sue’s Mum is rarely wrong and she was expecting it to brighten up.

So of we go around to Glenridding and up Striding Edge. I’ll probably talk more about that another time because there are all sorts of things that come from it. But so as not to give too much away; we made it up Striding Edge and down Swirral Edge. As a taster for a future post; I have a bruise on my knee and a scratch on my face as war wounds.

Just as we are heading back into Glenridding I say to Jonathan, “Well it’s a good job we didn’t let the weather stop us isn’t it”.

“Yes it is because I would have missed those views that will last forever”.

Anyone who has ever achieved something will know what he means.

When was the last time you created some “views that will last forever”?