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knicks610

A Rollercoaster Ride

Sep 21, 2006 23:26

As I was telling a friend today the events that have occurred in my life this week and how well I have been doing, her response was "I DONT ENVY THE ROLLERCOASTER RIDE YOU ARE ON".

Isn't everything a rollercoaster ride?

I've not rode a rollercoaster I haven't liked.

At first most people are anxious and slightly fearful of the unknown. What twists ( Read more... )

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liliha September 24 2006, 04:05:12 UTC

I stood for a long time by the roller coaster, and I noticed that most people get on it in search of excitement, but that once it starts, they are terrified and want the cars to stop ( ... )

And also... liliha September 24 2006, 04:06:06 UTC

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite; they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it--which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?