Hello...? Is this thing on....?

Sits down, blows the dust off the keyboard and realises that instead of my blog being all over the web, I in fact have webs all over my blog. This is NOT good people!!

In my quest to find balance, harmony, and really fun things to do with my life I keep forgetting to sit down and talk about it. If you can call pounding a keyboard technically talking, but you know what I mean.

Our journey through existence (oooooh - getting deep and thoughtful!!) is a ride in a them park. You get to pick the ride that fits you best, and you then get to rife it for the rest of your days. I thought that life for me was best described as a rollercoaster. all gut wrenching, screaming, g-force ripping and adrenaline pumping. But just when I thought that I'd mastered the track, and was ready to take the next curve or loop, some bugger keeps picking it up, pulls pieces off, changes things around, mangles it about in their hands and drops it to make it unknown, fresh and scary all over again.

The biggest and most important things I have learned about life in the theme park are as follows :-
1 - Lots of people spend their entire life on the carousel/merry go round because it is safe. The view remains the same, and there are no fast corners, or surprises.

2 - So many people spend their life on the ghost train, scrambling around in the dark, not seeing where they are trying to get to or what they are passing by and having the shit scared out of them on a regular basis and living on their nerves.

3 - Fewer people are brave enough to spend their life on the rollercoasters. Some will stick to a simple, mild one - where they think they are seeing excitement and living dangerously, but are really just going through something similar to the carousel albeit with some speed and a loop or two. Others will go for the wild old wooden coaster that feels like it has no control at all and live their time jarred and shaken by every toss and turn. The braver few will tackle the high rollers, the ones that have the potential to push their boundaries further and further if they are bold enough to hit the right speeds, and they think that life is amazing, but they keep hitting the brakes just as a new loop or an amazing track change is within sight, so they cannot ever ride the thing to its fullest potential. And then you have the people who realise what it is and understand how to ride it and they look around and savour the view and the sensation of the high winds and the turns and the twists of the ride.

This I am fine with, because I have worked it out. I understand that the coaster, with all of its crazy twists and turns is MY life, not just A life. Therefore I have also realised that I am that bugger who keeps picking it up and jiggling it about to make new shapes of it all. I can see the join. I want to know what the twiddlyknobs will do to the next curve if I crank them this way, or press that red button instead of the blue one. I can change seats if I like while the ride is in motion. I can stand up. I can step off of the car and wait for another one of a different colour to come along and ride in that instead. I can do what I like with it. it's fun!!!

So please enjoy your time in the park. Do not litter. Be respectful to others. But don't be afraid to through a high G's loop here and there for the sheer hell of it. But above all else - look around. Enjoy the journey :)