The Rollercoaster

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

-Hunter S. Thompson

Somewhere in my existence as a non-earth bound, spirit being, I decided to "take the ride" on this twisted, amusement park of a journey know as life on earth. Quite often, I wish I could stand toe to toe with that higher form of myself that made the decision to become earth bound and punch me/it in the nose.

You see, for me, life is one giant roller coaster. One day life is a "box of chocolates" and another I can barely muster the energy to get through the day. I say screw the whole life is a box of chocolates viewpoint. Life is a goddamn marathon and I'm the fat dude. Some people preach that it's all about not letting the highs get too high or the lows get too low. Yeah, sounds great. If I could get some instructions on how to pull that off I'd be forever indebted.

Anyway, in case it wasn't already obvious enough, today was a dip in the 'roller coaster.' I didn't feel a whole lot of inspiration and whenever that's the case I might as well go back to sleep. Take a Valium, draw the curtains and pretend I didn't even wake up. Unfortunately, that's never an option. I, like most of the world's population, have to force myself out of bed and fake that I want to be doing exactly what I don't want to be doing all day, every day. There must be another way to live. The world can't possibly be designed for the majority of it's human inhabitants to be unhappy. Damn it! I'm going to figure out a short cut to happy town, and when I do, I'm letting everyone in on the secret.

T