“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.” -The Great Philosopher of Modern Times, Calvin.
I'm always reminded of this whenever my life does a roller coaster on me..the problem is, there always seems to be a long long queue whenever you want to get on that ride, and the longer the queue is the more you assure yourself that its gonna be worth the wait..you always picture yourself riding that roller coaster..you see the brighter side of it.. imagine yourself at the highest point of the ride..and paint a pretty picture of you looking down from way up there (well..coz of the one reason that there's nothing to look upto at that point anyways).. and then imagine that moment to last a lifetime..
What you forget, is to calculate how much time it will take to get there..I tried to come up with a complex mathematical formula to account for all the variables..the distance from the point where you start thinking of calculating to the point you actually get on the car for the ride..all the people you will meet to get there..the amount of time you will take to politely remind them they are just talking about kings and cabbages too much to realize you are trying to figure out what meal they ate from the bit of food that is stuck in between their teeth..and when you finally get onto the car comes the wait for the almighty in the yellow hard hat to push the red button for the ride to finally get under way..then comes the hard part of the formula..the wait for the car to climb upto the highest point of the ride..now that I roughly estimated would be the product between the coefficient of your patience and the height of the point..almost always tends to the metaphorical eternity..
But then having waited for that eternity..and living the (literal) moment..you can't help but finally realize that you're falling..all the way..and fast..and at that moment..when you turn to your side and realize that you have your best friend next to you..to hold your hand..to cling on to you..and make you believe that if what goes up goes down also infers what goes down will eventually comes up too..the very friend who was there throughout the wait and to at that moment as well..you know that there's one factor that you forgot to add in the meticulously calculated formula..YOUR HOBBES..
I'm glad that I did add that factor in the end..because now.. the results for the formula have totally changed..the wait is for a momenzt and the pinnacle moment lasts an eternity..
