Ad astra per aspera.

Each little step, each move forward is punctuated by a stumble, even a small backward step. Each attempt at reaching further, of attaining success, is littered with the most treacherous of obstacles. Yet, each day, this Latin phrase, drilled into my head by years of exposure to it, reminds me what my Destiny is. I know that my Fate, my ultimate Goal, is beyond the scope of even my own vision. Somewhere, past the horizon, beyong the highest of mountains and the deepest of ravines lies that for which I was born. Someday, I will clutch my stars. I will then look over my shoulder. Only then will I turn to see what lies behind me. And each stumbling block, each hurdle, each perceived obstacle will lie in my view; and each will be a conquest I have made.

To the Stars, by hard ways.