Details matter, but don't sweat the small stuff

Clothes and shoes are irrelevant when we're talking about this culture. So are hair styles, skin color, and ethnicity. This runs deeper than that. This sparks within those few who feel compelled to awaken each day directed with purpose. Those who seek the scent of challenge and grin at adversity.

Those who commit.

Unwaveringly accepting of what it means to train. As the toll will be paid with hard work, and the road paved with pain, blood, and strict consistency.

Those who follow through eventually realize that you don't quite reach the destination, rather, you just keep cresting a peak, satisfied momentarily, only to slowly focus on another summit, far off, through more uncharted territory.

Understanding the journey with all of its lessons on how to take your time, how to adapt to circumstance, and where weakness shows through.

It takes a lifetime.

Indifferent and bullish they will seek, headlong, the path which drives them forward.

Whichever way that may be.

And it goes on like this, for years.