Over time I learned to accept that healing isn’t linear. It’s a staircase that goes both up and down, a deliberate journey that lasts a lifetime. The most important thing I learned was the difference between happiness and purpose: one is fleeting, the other more enduring.
— Joe Yelverten, I Survived an Avalanche in 1984. It Took Me Decades to Pick Up the Pieces, Outside, Feb 5 2022.