A Roller Coaster of Lessons

Reading is perhaps one of my top two favorite activities. I spend a good bulk of my time trying to find the "Perfect" next book on my reading list. Unfortunately, there are times when you pick up a book and you've read maybe three pages and your like "I don't know if I even want to finish." Typically this is due to the author's writing style, the grammatical technique , or the way the story is being presented. But as any avid reader knows, you have to at least finish the first chapter or two before you should be too hasty.  Though I will admit that on more than one occasion I have chucked a book that I've only read a page or two. It just was not my style it is usually the lack of writing skill the author is using.

Like the adoption process, we have a story. I'm writing it as we go. Jumping on board with us is probably interesting at first, but the excitement tends to dwindle as the climax seems to get further and further away. You see people with babies all around you, and you have absolutely no idea when you'll be bring home your baby. You could be on the roller-coaster ride of a story, where there are many peaks with swift decent, taking you up and down on a seemingly endless ride of hills and valleys. I suppose its only logical to presume that perhaps you just haven't read far enough. After all, the peaks and valleys of a story line is only seen in hindsight, after you reached the actual climax. Looking back at all the peaks and valleys only enriched the experience and allowed you to understand the full velocity of the situation.

If you don't know that your going to fall here, but you do and the next hill or the final hill is right in front of you, you learn something from the first, third, twentieth, hill. Like on a roller coaster, you learn on the first one to be ready for twists and turns and brace your head back in the seat, you ready your stomach for the feeling of free fall, and finally you expect all these complications to begin with on the next few hills.

Like every life experience Keith and I are learning so much, watching others, taking the lessons, and trying to hold on as we go into the tunnel. The important thing, like a roller coaster, your not alone. You have the people in front of you, the person next to you holding your hand, and the people behind you following in your steps. We are are on the Adoption roller coaster together.