Climbers

Climbing the Wall

There are all sorts of climbers. Vines and creepers are climbers; then we have rock climbers like in this rather blurred picture. Perhaps social climbers are the worst however and we all know many of those.

The thing about climbing is that it is usually great fun. We can climb the career ladder for instance and regularly get promoted to one or two levels beyond our actual ability and capability. This happens all the time in politics - especially noteworthy with the present Cabinet incumbents. It is glaringly apparent with economists and bankers (pet hate).

The other thing about climbing is that it can defy gravity - but only temporarily. All that potential energy has to dissipate eventually. Entropy rules at the end of the day where the natural state tends to disorder. what goes up comes down. This happens to all of us and is inevitable; some more rapidly and inelegantly than others. Some even take glee in the demise of others, a kind of schadenfreude in fact. Hence the feeding frenzy on the BBC at the moment with the rapid descent of the Director General. There is a similar effect with Saville. The man reached the top of the celebrity pile; an apotheosis in the Charity and Celebrity world if ever there was one. It all came tumbling down.

So - watch those who climb. Inevitably they have to come down again. The only variable is the speed of descent and the impact on landing!