What Heights to Achieve?

I started thinking about climbing stairs after I made this image.

Here are some images that came to my mind and made me realize how climbing stairs really is a good metaphor for life.

Gleefully bounding up the stairs two at a time!

Rushing up the stairs because you are late and catching your toe on the edge of one; which causes you to bruise a knee and generally slows you down for days

Slowly, carefully, quietly climbing the stairs with a sleeping child in your arms

Climbing stairs somewhere where the view gets more spectacular with every step.

Dragging your butt up the stairs for any reason

Climbing the steps onto a stage

Getting to the second to last step in a long flight of stairs and remembering something, an item you need, still downstairs

Stairway to Heaven