Shoshone Point

There’s a trail on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon called Shoshone Point. Most of the South Rim works the same way: you drive, or take one of the free shuttles, pull up to a viewpoint, and step right out into a view of the canyon. It’s spectacular, but you’re never alone. Wherever the view is easy to reach, so is everyone else. Shoshone Point is different. You park, then walk about a mile along a quiet dirt trail. That small bit of resistance changes everything. At the end, the trail opens onto a wide, unobstructed view of the canyon, and almost nobody else bothers to make the walk. It’s a good analogy for life. Plenty of beauty is available to anyone willing to show up to the right place. But the places that ask for a little extra effort, the ones most people skip, are usually the ones that end up feeling the most extraordinary.

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