Our Life-long 'MERRY-GO-ROUND' Rides!

 

Can I make one small request for now:  That our last thread for this 2025 should be lighter and less serious please?  On that note, allow me to share EN TOTO the Quora.com post by Richard Strachan:  My flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks.  As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle and told us that "Captain Marvey has asked me to announce that he'll be landing the big scary plane shortly, so lovely people, if you could just put your trays up, that would be super."On his trip back up the aisle, he noticed this well-dressed and rather Arabic-looking woman hadn't moved a muscle. "Perhaps you didn't hear me over those big brute engines but I asked you to raise your trazy-poo, so the main man can pitty-pat us on the ground."She calmly turned her head and said, "In my country, I am called a Princess and I take orders from no one."  To which (I swear) the flight attendant replied, without missing a beat, "Well, sweet-cheeks, in my country I'm called a Queen, so I outrank you.  Tray-up, Bitch."💚💛💜

A small lesson here:  You can be the head of family in your household OR the CEO of your organization BUT out there, we have a level playing field.  We are all and will remain EQUALs in life.  No favorites.  No handicaps. Regardless as to WHERE we are in our social strata, that DOESN'T matter at all because WHAT matters most and WHAT sets each of us apart is HOW do we steer our lives, HOW do we navigate through the travails and turmoils, HOW do we keep [at the very least] our head above the waters and HOW we remain resilient everytime we end up off-track❌❌❌

YES dude, from another dimension, our LIFE remains akin to the circle.  NO matter WHAT beast you make of yourself OR HOW bright one side is, inevitablythe dark side comes again.  BUT the beauty of the circle is, ROUND WE GO.  Comparing ourselves to the golfers WHO get drenched by the scorching heat of the sun out in the golf course, we are all AT PAR, NO handicaps, NO deprivations, NO differentiations.  And YES, our life is a merry-go-round no less!  Enjoy the ride and get off as you please.  Out there in those merry-go-round amusement parks, we really DON'T understand human nature UNLESS and UNTIL you know WHY a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and WHY his parents will always wave back.   Those subtle realities in life😌😌😌

YES, those merry-go-round rides, I really loved it despite sometimes those spins made me nauseous and the somewhat 'bumpy' ride left me with a headache.  BUT there was always something magical about those roundabouts that seem to have given me [ALWAYS] that free reign to the imagination.  In retrospect, one could say they conjure up images that extend way beyond the playful to other realities in life.  The bright lights of life welcome us  to the playground of life and takes us to that spin over and over again.  YES, sometimes the spin is bumpy and at other times, smooth enough and as a bonus, it feels like the ride is filled with music.  And YES, we can react in a happy, sad, angry OR fearful manner BUT no matter our reaction, the ride, like life, continues until it's time to get off😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  To sound poetic, if I had my life to live over, I would probably start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.  And if I were a girl, I'll probably go for more dances and YES, I'd love to ride more merry-go-rounds and pick daisies randomly.  And going back to our shared Quora.com story about that flight attendant, I'll probably be more circumspect and tactful, without assuming that when I'm airborne, I'm the in-flight queen!@#$%^ HAPPY NEW YEAR folks💥💥💥