Dare to ride the 'Double Loop?'
You could say that life is a roller coaster. It moves quickly, is inescapable until it stops and the seat locks are lifted, and it takes unexpected and unpredictable turns, drops, rises and spins.
Tonight I wonder where I will be in a year from now. When I was in grade 2, I would never have guessed my surroundings would have changed so drastically from high rises and roses to cow pies and orchard flowers. Again as a middle school nobody, I would never have guessed myself a success at sports, books and theater. When I planned university I hardly knew Canada existed, and when I went to university, I never in a million years would have suspected I would end up in Korea, and then back in the states teaching. Nor at any of those moments would I have guessed myself brave enough to encounter hidden parts of the world, sickness in high mountain villages or language charades in public streets.
I am what I did not expect or dream, have done what I never thought of or knew to be, and have become a person no different from you; a normal average girl who dreams and somehow amongst her dreams reality seeps through in amazing and extravagant surprises!
I am glad for reality today, so that I can look at it and remember what it was and what it can be and what it is now. At times it is easy, rather, more simple, to get lost in the thoughts of what-ifs and possibilities, but now, as I sit here, I know that the truth is much better. Reality beats the what-could-bes and what-might-bes and even the want-to-bes. Reality is what happens when you work towards one goal and a surprise ending falls in your lap and it is better than dreamed possible. Reality is in fact the dream that we are not capable to have because it is impossible to imagine. It is the coming together of all things for a pure purpose; a jointing of destiny souls; a compilation of meaning finally defined; a point where all lines go. Reality is a roller coaster. It is unpredictable all besides one immensely essential point: we know the car is meant to stay on the track and it will carry up to the finality of the course despite the bumps, loops, turns and upside-down moments. That is, unless we are too scared to get on and never leave the platform.
Jump in and dare to ride the Double Loop!
Tonight I wonder where I will be in a year from now. When I was in grade 2, I would never have guessed my surroundings would have changed so drastically from high rises and roses to cow pies and orchard flowers. Again as a middle school nobody, I would never have guessed myself a success at sports, books and theater. When I planned university I hardly knew Canada existed, and when I went to university, I never in a million years would have suspected I would end up in Korea, and then back in the states teaching. Nor at any of those moments would I have guessed myself brave enough to encounter hidden parts of the world, sickness in high mountain villages or language charades in public streets.
I am what I did not expect or dream, have done what I never thought of or knew to be, and have become a person no different from you; a normal average girl who dreams and somehow amongst her dreams reality seeps through in amazing and extravagant surprises!
I am glad for reality today, so that I can look at it and remember what it was and what it can be and what it is now. At times it is easy, rather, more simple, to get lost in the thoughts of what-ifs and possibilities, but now, as I sit here, I know that the truth is much better. Reality beats the what-could-bes and what-might-bes and even the want-to-bes. Reality is what happens when you work towards one goal and a surprise ending falls in your lap and it is better than dreamed possible. Reality is in fact the dream that we are not capable to have because it is impossible to imagine. It is the coming together of all things for a pure purpose; a jointing of destiny souls; a compilation of meaning finally defined; a point where all lines go. Reality is a roller coaster. It is unpredictable all besides one immensely essential point: we know the car is meant to stay on the track and it will carry up to the finality of the course despite the bumps, loops, turns and upside-down moments. That is, unless we are too scared to get on and never leave the platform.
Jump in and dare to ride the Double Loop!
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