a roller coaster ride is standard classroom seating

It feels like forever since I have been here. Yet I have come here everyday, but had nothing fresh to say. Went to visit the blog of the day, as you do. It is like going for a stroll to get some fresh air and a new perspective on things. Some days I relate some days not, usually I just come back home, and retire to my own thoughts. The blog I looked at was "as good as it gets"...with a very uplifting author, and a real feel good story. Today for some strange reason I had the urge to look at the 5 comments that were there which usually I would not, and even stranger....(the universe works in mysterious ways, so who knows the mechanics) I was drawn to go to one of the authors that had left a comment, and look at her blog. Again it was an up lifting, down to earth writer....a real person with a great outlook on a tough situation who was choosing to find the goodness in it. Her blog name is xmiamigirl, and her blog is thoughtsx. She is obviously new here, just having started out, but her blog was my inspiration to get back into thoughts. So here goes. There universe is full of twists and turns that are there to make us into better entities. Like fitness, if our challenges are near maximum intensity, we get fit faster. No challenge works if we see it coming, and are given enough time to carefully plan out the full detail and put in place all the perfect coping mechanisms...then it simply can't be called a challenge any longer. Challenges are the life blood of our sense of achievement, and the motor of the word motiveation. Challenges are like dark tunnels that we often are dropped into without warning. But only through first enduring the darkness of the tunnel, and choosing to pick a direction, (even if we aren't even sure if it is foreward), only then can we expect to experience the exhilerating sensation of our first sight of light. The interesting thing is that if we dared to dig we might find that it is this sensation we seek, more than the end of the tunnel itself, for once out of the darkness, the challenge and all of the emotion we drive ourselves on, on a day to day basis, which is released in an explosive sigh of relief at our first sight of light, is all gone. Life goes on, but without the challenges we are often lost. The danger here is...do we quietly, when no one is looking, deep down at a somewhat subconscious level perhaps desire the challenges to in our life. We might tell others we don't like them when they are here, but is it really our closet secret that infact we crave them enough to be attracting them? Food for thought. For sure there is no doubt for me, that I remember to strap myself in when I get up in the morning now, because I know that my classroom seat, has four wheels on a track, that gains some pretty hairy speeds when the momentum gets going. I look forward to learning more about myself by following the lives of other positive people like xmiamigirl.