By Denise Turney<\/p>\n
Like a rollercoaster, life seems to vacillate, going up and down. It took me several years to figure this out.<\/p>\n
When I was a kid, my major concern was continuing to find fun things to do to fill up my day. That concern was swept away like water running off a counter edge as I played with neighbors, my sister and my brothers. Having fun was so easy then. It was my only job, the only thing I had to do. Over the years, my life (as I\u2019m sure yours has to) has filled up with work, family responsibilities and other projects, daily responsibilities that, over time, can easily find life in this world feeling like a rollercoaster.<\/p>\n
Riding the Life Rollercoaster<\/strong><\/p>\n The days seem to be gone when each day seemed the same as the day before, except for the new and exciting trick, game or other fun activity my siblings, friends and I engaged in. Gone are the days when the only thing that made life in this world feel like a rollercoaster to me were major changes<\/a> in the weather. I can still see myself sitting close to my family\u2019s living room window on Dow Street watching rain streak slowly down the glass pane. I\u2019d look out at the rain and wish it would go away. Forget the fact that rain watered plants, trees and crop, filling the earth with color and food. I wanted to go outside and play.<\/p>\n Then I started school (not my choice) and I started dealing with feeling propelled<\/em> (pushed might be a better word) to do things that I didn\u2019t want to do. Discovered teachers had rules, some that I questioned. Then it was off to college (of course, so I could earn more money at a job). Like you may have, I worked while I went to college, had a work\/study job in the college traffic ticket office. After college it was off to a full-time job and that\u2019s when life started taking on<\/a> more of a rollercoaster effect.
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