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Life is a roller coaster!

May 14, 2007

There are so many metaphors for this experience we call life but the one that?s resonating with me at the moment is ?life is a roller coaster.?

You get on a roller coaster expecting to be frightened and challenged and thrilled along the way ? and you?re never disappointed.

At some point, you?re going to wonder if getting on was a good idea, but there is no way off, so you just have to go with it and ride the ups and downs and twists and turns and lurches and bumps until you get to the end.

There are also times along the way when you feel absolutely certain that you are going to die. There is no way out. You are about to crash and burn.

All you can do is close your eyes and hang on and hope that the illusion of impending death is just that ? an illusion.

And just when you think it?s all over, the ride takes an unexpected turn and you?re back on track!

Life, like a roller coaster, can very often take your breath away and bring you right to the very brink.

And when it does, the only thing you can is let go of your version of the outcome and trust that everything will turn out all right in the end.