I could have been a contender.
If you have made it this far, congratulate yourself: you are stout-hearted and wonder-seeking, and your fortitude of spirit shall be rewarded in the company of others who feel as you do; in lieu of peaks, give us valleys. Golden unspoiled valleys running wide with rivers and the tallest trees. And let us eschew troughs, for they are wooden and slipshod, and pigs eat out of them. Thus we give you a new dichotomy: VALLEYS and TROUGHS.
Absolution.