Thursday 11 January 2018

Rollercoasters

Ive always loved Rollercoasters....the first time I experienced one I was 11 maybe 12 years old....I'd broken my arm on a school residential (a story for another day!) and it was Blackpool so it was raining ☔️
Our school used to do a sponsored event to raise money...(I think it was for a new roof I could be wrong)and the form that raised the most got a free day out to Blackpool pleasure beach. I'd never been on a rollercoaster before but decided to embrace the opportunity, it was free  after all and give everything a go!
Wrapped in a kagool and clinging on to my best mate we embarked on the Revolution. We screamed in stereotypical young teen manner and were equally terrified and exhilarated at the same time. I never will forget Lindsay breathing a sigh of relief as we got to the end only to realise the ride returned only backwards !!! The screams reached an all time high !!!!

Life feels like a rollercoaster at the moment ...there have been some real exhilarating highs of times with friends and family, moments of delight with the boys and real epiphany moments (timely for this period of time) in work.. and just when you think progress is being made bang a person, a comment, an event knocks you sideways ...I care too much about people so it hurts.

So many dear friends are also experiencing the dip of the Rollercoaster moment but the reassurance is that when it's in the lowest dip it always goes up again ...the key is to hold on to the knowledge that that will happen in time.

As one of my many favourite blonde boy band singers once sang "life is a rollercoaster you just got to ride it !" ....keep going

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