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"From Maria's diary, one night when she
lacked the courage to go out, to live or to continue waiting for the
phone call that never came:
I spent today outside a funfair. Since
I can't afford to fritter my money away, I thought it best just to
watch other people. I stood for a long time by the roller coaster,
and I noticed that most people get on it in search of excitement, but
that once it starts, they are terrified and want the cars to stop.
What do they expect? Having chosen
adventure, shouldn't they be prepared to go the whole way? Or do they
think that the intelligent thing to do would be to avoid the ups and
downs and spend all their time on a carousel, going round and round
on the spot?
At the moment, I'm far too lonely to
think about love, but I have to believe that it will happen, that I
will find a job and that I am here because I chose this fate. The
roller coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a
parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up
again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of
yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.
It isn't easy being far from my family
and from the language in which I can express all my feelings and
emotions, but, from now on, whenever I feel depressed, I will
remember that funfair. If I had fallen asleep and suddenly woken up
on a roller coaster, what would I feel?
Well, I would feel trapped and sick,
terrified of every bend, wanting to get off. However, if I believe
that the track is my destiny and that God is in charge of the
machine, then the nightmare becomes something thrilling. It becomes
exactly what it is, a roller coaster, a safe, reliable toy, which
will eventually stop, but, while the journey lasts, I must look at
the surrounding landscape and whoop with excitement." -- Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho
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