We set off in search of adventure
Not knowing where it would end
Hardly knowing where it would begin
We set off hoping to see wonders beyond our imagination
We hoped that this was where life began
We set off not knowing where we would go
But we were hopeful, and we were patient
We knew our toil would pay off in the end
We just weren’t sure when

We knew our time would come
We had faith, we had belief, we had confidence
Our ability would help guide our way
If we got lost we would find our way back
The path would reveal itself to us in the end
But there were just our hopes and dreams

We had hoped they would be
but they were never to be
anything more than wishful thinking

It wasn’t reality, just a dream
But we trekked on
We weren’t going to be deterred
Things had turned out differently
But we were going to roll with it
We were determined
And nothing was going to get in our way
Nothing except the final frontier
The last enemy, the ultimate hurdle

This was what we had been working for our whole lives
This was the giant we were meant to slay
This was to be the culmination of everything that life threw at us
The final frontier, the end goal
The capstone of our accomplishment
The end of the journey

But little did we know
That this was the bridge to something new
Not the end, but only the beginning
For when one story ends another begins
The final frontier is not the final one
It’s the first milestone in a series of milestones
The first major accomplishment in a sea of accomplishments

We set off on an adventure
Not knowing where it would end
We thought we knew what direction it would take us
But little did we know how little we knew
Not the end but only the beginning
A journey that never ends is the path less traveled
A path less traveled is the one that’s worth taking