When you’re
on your way Up – Throw your hands in the Air and feel the air flow through your
fingers, scream out loud! Raise your adrenalin and your blood pressure, breathe
deeply and enjoy every second.
And on the
way down, hold on to the safety bar, breathe deeply, think intently, learn from
the experience – it will be over soon!
Last week I
was on a very obvious Big Dipper, on Monday my carriage started going up it was
moving at a steady pace and continued to its peak on Saturday afternoon when my
Grandchildren arrived (Little Boy and Little Girl).
So on
Saturday afternoon me and the Grandchildren went for a walk to the local
supermarket, and on this journey that I do at least once per week suddenly the
landscape was different. At five years old Little Boy see’s things I don’t see
at first, he notices expressions I don’t see and he hears things I don’t hear.
So my normal ten minute walk became a fifteen minute walk as it was punctuated
by a series of stops for me to explain a situation, unravel a scene, laugh out
loud at the interpretation of life by a five year old.
After the
supermarket where Little Boy decided to try out his marshall arts skills on a
cucumber…ooops! and Little girl tried to half inch a packets of sweets that
were at buggy level. We went into the Toyshop, it is one of those quaint old
village type shops selling lots of
wooden toys and traditional games. Little Boy chose his toy and handed it to
the assistant for ‘scanning’ I explained to him that this was an ‘old
fashioned’ shop and it didn’t have a scanner. His brow furrowed and confusion
washed over his face ‘what’s an old fashioned shop?’ he said. So then I had to
explain, that while many shops today had scanning machines and security tags on
their items; this shop didn’t. I explained to him that when I was younger all
the shops were like this. The confusion began to ebb away from his face and he
said ‘are you old fashioned Grandma’? – I laughed and replied ‘I think I am
darling, Yes I am’.
When we
finally left the shop (with my purse £25 lighter) I had a large grin on my face
and my mind was full of sparkling clear realisation. Old fashioned? Me? Ha ha
ha but in many many ways so very very true. Out of the mouth of babes aye?
Old
fashioned maybe, but Happy, very very happy and content with life. And as if
Life was a jealous character, looking in – the very next day it pulled the rug
on my contended happiness!! Nothing serious, nothing life threatening or
harmful. Maybe to describe it as a ‘pull’ was too harsh. It was more of a sharp
‘tug’ not too hard but enough for me to fall off the Apex, enough for me to
have to hold on to the safety bar!
You know it
really is up to you what you see when you’re on the way down. It really is up
to you how far down you fall and the choice is totally yours as to whether you ‘hit
the bottom’!
You know if
on your way down, you keep your head up and look to the stars you see all that
is around you in all its great wonderfulness. Those you Love, those precious
items, the books you have read, your favourite songs, people who are important,
strangers who bestow kindness, the Sun,
the Moon, hope ……. If you look down everything around you is a blur and the
only object in focus is the cold hard bottom.
When things
take a turn and life takes a tug or even a massive haul at the rug under my
feet; I keep looking up (yes I hold onto the safety bar) but I keep my head up,
my spirits up and soon enough I will be back on my way up.
Go on try
it – next time life has a go at your rug and you find yourself on a journey
down hill – KEEP YOUR HEAD UP!
Life is
like a roller coaster – it goes down, and then it goes Up!
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