Life is a rollercoaster ride

" The roller coaster ride is my life; life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it...
... If i had fallen asleep and suddenly woken up on a roller coaster, what would i feel? Well, I would feel trapped and sick, terrified of every bend, wanting to get off. However, if i believe that the track is my destiny and that God is incharge of the machine, then the nightmare becomes something thrilling. It becomes exactly what it is, a roller coaster, a safe, reliable toy, which will eventually stop, but, while the journey lasts, I must look at the surrounding landscape and whoop with excitement."
- Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes)