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Waiting For A Rollercoaster

Most of life is waiting for the ride

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Waiting For A Rollercoaster
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Life is like waiting for a roller coaster.

The wait can be short. You get on within minutes and then the ride sucks but you cut your losses. It was only a few minutes wasted. Maybe it was a good ride, something absolutely spectacular. Though it will never really be that spectacular, seeing as you hardly had to work to get on the ride.

Sometimes, the wait time isn’t so bad, it is only about twenty minutes. You can handle that amount of time. When you get on you feel a bit of relief because you were waiting and now you’re not. Whether it’s fun or not, you can’t complain, because you got here, and you’ve reached your objective. That ball of fear that might have been building up can’t be bothered with, because you’re strapped in and you will ride this roller coaster now.

Then the wait gets longer; maybe it is about an hour. Every time someone moves up, it's a small victory for you. During this time, there is not much to think about other than going on the ride. Of course your anxiety builds, because maybe you could be that person who has never been on a rollercoaster. You think with every passing minute, will this ride be scary? Will it be fun? You look at other people who are so excited to be riding this, and you think maybe you should be that excited. However, some people, well they can’t stop talking about how scared out of their minds they are, and then you wonder if you should be scared. You get on, so there is some relief, yet it is riddled anxiety about how everything will go. and you’re a crazy mess, but none of it matters because you’re moving fast now.

Sometimes the wait lasts what seems forever. And these questions intensify. You think "this isn’t worth the wait." That you should find a roller coaster with a shorter waiting time, even though it might not be as good as this one. You ask yourself if all of this wait will be for nothing, and the roller coaster will be terrible and all of these other people will be duped, just like you. You grow afraid. What if it doesn’t work? What if everything goes wrong, and this will be a huge mistake? You truly contemplate getting out of line. Maybe moving to a simpler place where no roller coasters are there to remind you of the fear you felt when faced with this one. It could possibly be the scariest thing you ever do. But when you get on, a relief will wash over you, showing your wait has resulted in something, and then maybe it is the best roller coaster you’ve ever been on, and you get in line again because you realize the wait was worth the reward. Or maybe you get on and it’s the worst roller coaster you’ve ever experienced and you feel betrayed that you wasted your time on the silly idea it was any good.

And then you can give up roller coasters for the rest of your life. Say it isn’t worth waiting in line for any roller coaster, because this one absolutely sucked, and what is the point of risking getting on another awful roller coaster.

Or, you can just get in another line and stop being so overdramatic.


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