Scream if you're just not sure...

Some one wise once said life was a roller-coaster.

Ok, Ronan Keating might not be that wise, but he did have the best luscious locks and curtains around in the 90's and my baby sister used to say he was her husband so he must have been doing some thing right, one thing is for sure, he certainly wasn't wrong about life.

In the past two months, I have been up, down, and generally around the twist. I've visited cloud 9, fallen down in the dumps, cried, laughed, drank,  been over whelmed, over the moon and so so over it. And my head is spinning. And it's not just because of the sheer amount of caffeine and wine it has taken to survive and celebrate the past month.

I know everyone has their mood swings, and the saying it all goes to shit at once is a saying for a reason, however recently things seemed to have intensified, and not just for me. I ring a friend to tell them good news and am met with equally good news, I ring one to have a moan and hear an already sobbing voice on the other end of the line.

It got to the point the other day when I rang a friend and had to shout JINX as we both congratulated the universe in knocking us for 6 at exactly the same time.  But looking back I'm not sure whether I'm on a hair raising roller-coaster or just a particularly stomach turning grass hopper ride. Up, down, up, down. Never going all that high or low, but I loose my stomach anyway because of the sudden drop and lift.

My point is this, we only recognise the highs because of the lows, and vice versa. And the trick is to fix your eye on that point in  the distance and keep some perspective. Think of it like this, yes it sucks to get dumped, but does this really feel all that bad or does it just feel bad in comparison to how you felt last week when not only did you have a date but you were also spending the week performing and getting rave reviews?

  

No it doesn't, but we very rarely focus on the good stuff. After all, were you more interested in how much I loved performing in that last paragraph or why I got dumped?

I guess what I am saying is, that while the good intensifies the bad, nothing beats the adrenalin of feeling the roller-coaster climbing again. So I am grateful that some times things don't always go to plan (no really, being dumped was actually a pretty lucky escape), and if you do loose sight of that point in the distance, turn your head, because there is always some one sat in the seat next to you. And they are convinced that there harness isn't on tight enough either.

And if that doesn't work, well here, nobody can be depressed when Ronan is here. Just look at that hair.