Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Uphill Strides

I often use roller coasters as a pawn in the metaphorical games I play with my writing. But I always seem to assciate roller caosters with negativity, which is fairly accurate. I mean everybody looks for stability, I want it badly myself. But I think what i've missed is that i'm going to be riding roller coasters all my life, whether i'm in a truly stable situation or not. Some I simply ride higher and straighter. The ones i'm used to and most commonly write about are the steeper low riding ones. But no matter what I do there are always going to be ups and downs to everything. It really just all depends on the roller coaster you're riding, and how worth while that ride really is, and knowing when to get off and onto another, if ever? I know the roller coaster i'm riding and I know every downhill slope or runt is worth the overall ride. The uphill strides outweigh the bad and I don't plan on getting off. 

This was kind of a more positive optimistic look on the same type of topic as my last blog. That one I looked at all of this with negative eyes, this one I look at with more optimism. At heart i'm a realist and an optimist, but I have my pessimistic "fuck the world" moments as well, which is typically when I write. I'm human, just finding my own personal balance. I like being optimistic, and it's something I hope adulthood doesn't take from me. 

Sunday, June 14, 2009

The Horizontal Exchange

Life is a constant exchange, it seems. You trade one hardship for a another. One sorrow for a different. Everything is lateral movement, and it's sad. You take two steps up, to stumble four steps down, then shift from ladder to ladder on that fourth broken step. Until you're lifted once again another two steps, then dropped and shifted, and the process goes on. 

I did exit my roller coaster months ago, only to be strapped to another, that's just gained downhill momentum. Decent writing is back I believe, how wonderful. 
"And the world spins madly on..."