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PUBLISHER´S MESSAGE

it. If we have to wake up early in the morning,
start walking, breaking the undergrowth, ma-
king way where there is no road, feel the heat
of the sun burning our back, after a few hours
walking we will feel the heat of the sores on our
feet and we wil go forward until reaching the
top, the top where there is nothing to get, no
MacDonald, there is not a hotel full of comfort,
or even no signal on the phone, only we see the
image in our mind of all our efforts to reach at
the top, on each fall and each raise on the way
to the top we strengthen the body, mind and
spirit.

Today I want to tell you two stories very close
to me. In the first of these stories I am one of
the protagonists and it shows the place whe-
re the Martial Science Magazine logo was
We must someday climb a mountain

Life is full of emotions. Happy times as well as
hard times. Not always it is like that. Sometimes
the hard times appear more frequently than ha-
ppy. Maybe this is why we should value more
the little bubble that is happiness and prepare to
face the difficulties and setbacks that we might
come in our way.

In our modern world we exercise less than be-
fore.Nowadays, we have a remote control to
turn on or off, change channels, raise or lower
the volume of the TV, the stereo, or to remotely
control our fans, we have Eletricas stairs, eleva-
tors, and we drive on a car most of the time we
go someplace. And if we go to the mountaintop
we rent a helicopter, we took some photos and
go back to the daily routine a little empty insi-
de, thinking how boring it was the trip without
much to tell our parents, children or friends.

Do you know what happened? We have for-
gotten something very important: The way to
achieve the objective is more important than
the goal itself. The ecstasy of being on top does
not make the summit itself, but the way to reach

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