I spend many of my thoughts on contemplating the meaning of life and my purpose in it. I have always been this way. My life has been a living example of this through the choices I’ve made from leaving a medical career path to relentlessly pursue my spirit and the truth of it that is within me.

One of the realisations that came to me is through an analogy of a rollercoaster ride and how it can also resemble the experience of life.

Whenever I jump on a ride, I am immersed in a mix of emotion. Excitement, joy, fear, uncertainty, even death. This is because I love the adrenaline rush and excitement that comes from it. It slows down when it meets with a peak, rising ever so slowly. I feel calm in this moment until I am suddenly met with a dip that plunges me into fear and uncertainty of death. When the ride is over, I feel a sense of satisfaction, still reeling from the excitement, and look toward my next adventure.

Once you enter the ride, there is no turning back. There are peaks and troughs that are joyful and fearful. And the only way out of it once you enter it is to go the distance with it. I notice some people are terrified and shaken by it. Because of the fear of the unknown that can be so overwhelming because of our innate nature to need to feel a sense of control over our life. And then there are those who love adventure and revel in the excitement of not knowing what is to come.

This example is no different to the experience of life. Life is a ride that we enter when we choose to birth ourselves into the world. Our soul decides this. It makes a choice to enter earth and suddenly out we come out of our mother’s womb kicking and screaming.

And then comes the next wave of life. Childhood and adolescence. A tumultuous period of life that feels like an eternity. Then the challenges continue to emerge into adulthood until we enter an age of peace and wisdom and the ultimate inevitability of death. Our life is a ride.

The thing about rides is it already has a track. It has already predetermined its journey and destination. Our life is the same. The earth and the universe and all things within it has its own path that it has determined. Our soul has our life predetermined before we are born here.

How we choose to experience the ride of life is up to us. We can be fearful of it and experience it in such a way that is painful, or we can choose to enjoy every moment of it. Both during the good times and the hard times.

So the next time you experience a challenging moment in your life, remind yourself that your life is just a ride that you chose to jump on. It can be fun and exciting if we allow it to be.

“Many are the births you and I have passed through. I know them all, but you have forgotten.”
Lord Krishna, The Bhagavad Gita

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