Traversing - pacing back and forth for impatient climbers
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.
You realize that you control your own destiny.
Traversing will help keep you on the wall after you can no longer go up. You can hang forever but can't move up. Maybe, it would help you shake off the pump.