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Regarding Life

Niko talking about life---"It is like a roller coaster ride"

   Life is an amusement park......after all, isn't that what we strive for?
We walk around, purchasing tickets to different rides, some we just are not old enough for yet...but they give us hope, because one day we will be able to achieve our goals.
   Some of the rides scare us, we almost have to be talked into going on them....and a lot of times, it works.
   The scariest of all--yet the most fun--are roller coasters.
They're not really meant for kids. Yet kids are the most fond of them.
Its a long way up, such a fast way down, even the line we have to wait just to get on them sometimes is 100 times longer than the ride itself. Yet we wait...
   We finally get on. Wow!  It is such a long way up, and such a fast way down, but in a short moment of time we take flight. You get a feeling that no other ride can simulate the sensation of the roller coaster ride. That feeling, as short as it is, can stay with us a lifetime. For some that feeling starts to fade, to numb, as they get older. Later, some even pass up roller coasters and find more thrill at the food court, hehehe...

   The difference is....we need food to live...we need roller coasters to keep experiencing life...

   Roller coasters have so many ups, so many downs, so many twists, loops, turns, spins.......each one thrilling us more than the last one.   No matter how scared you are before you get on, no matter how scared you are while you are on, no matter how scared you were when it finally came to an end, the fear gets replaced, taken over by the THRILL of it all, the recollection of the ride. No matter how scared you were, when the roller coaster comes to a stop, often you wish it was going to start all over again.

   The roller coaster is like the experiences we have in our lives. All of the twists, loops, turns and twists are the bigger and faster roller coasters of our lives. That's what we remember and that's why we should always seek to build life's  bigger and faster roller coasters.

The number one attraction in life are like twists, turns and loops we experience on the roller coaster--these are the sensations we never forget. Our life is like a fast ride on a roller coaster.


-Niko "Wave-O-Matic"  Birakos