What would you associate 

these stairs appearing before your eyes with? 

Is it mounting the stairs 

or going downhill one step at a time? 

The exact same view 

can be interpreted differently by each and every one of us 

as we are all standing at our own unique locations; 

yet such is life, 

where we are at times advancing 

and at times retrogressing 

on our individual stairway of life.