..a Roller Coaster

life is funny, isn't it?

Just when you think you have got it all figured

out,just when you finally begin to plan something,

get excited about something, and feel like you know

what direction you are heading in, the paths change,

the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north

is south, and east is west, and you are lost. It is so easy

to lose your way, to lose direction. And that's with following

all the signposts.

It has its own ways of enjoying. Every so often it likes to dip

and when you feel like you can't take any more it smooths

out again.

Things change so quickly. Just when you get used to something,

zap! It changes. Just when you begin to understand someone,

zap! They grow up.

Our life is made up of time;our days are measured in hours, our

pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by

years. We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a 

coffee break. We rush to our desks, we watch the clock, we live

by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you

wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, days,

weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way

they possibly could.

It's funny because when you are a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic,fairy tales, and in

possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you are hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be,you just might have to settle for a little bit less. Or perhaps a variation of what you once wanted.

Why do we stop believing in ourselves?

Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?