Do you know how easy it is to take the wrong path descending a peak?

On a certain rock, the correct path is always easy to low moderate. There are many false paths that branch off, but lead to rough terrain in loose areas with cliffs -- it would in fact be more dangerous to attempt that terrain than a vertical face with secure holds that feels easy for you.

I maintained a swift, but not too fast pace since I wanted to get down before sunset, and I did not want to linger where I could be arrested.

When the heart is pumping and one feels fatigue, it is easy to turn onto the wrong path, and it can be extremely dangerous to consider the cost sunk and be unwilling to turn back, start climbing uphill again knowing maybe you will decide you actually had it right the first time.

As I made my way down, I just kept repeating in my head "the correct path is always easy; if it is not easy, it cannot be the correct path".

This does not mean to avoid doing things that are hard. The man who walks with purpose and reason simply overcomes all obstacles effortlessly for there is nothing hard about doing what must be done. Fiat wants to make slaves of people, to do work that is hard. Honest work is not work, but simply a state of being. So perhaps now as I go about my life I will think back to these moments from yesterday and remind myself, if it is not easy, it is not the correct path. If I do not know, I know.