Park of life.

Today I was sitting in a park... I had an absurd, however logical thought. Around me was various park equipment: a see-saw, swings, a climbing frame and a roundabout.

I had a thought. Life is like a park. Life itself isn't a park, but we all go through stages which resemble park equipment - despite how bizarre it may sound.

Sometimes in life we're like a see-saw: we feel up and then we feel down... This, like a see-saw, may be down to another person sitting opposite us who is weighing us down. From this, we find it hard to find a balance... It feels almost impossible at that time, unless we make a compromise with that person weighing us down. Alternatively, a person may be lifting us up by taking the weight of our shoulders. 

Sometimes in life we may feel like a swing: swinging backward and forwards like a pendulum... Backward and forwards, backward and forwards.  For one minute we feel that we are forwards in life and that we are making an advanced step - we are literally on top of the world, like you feel when you are swinging high. However, sometimes reality kicks in and we have to take that step backwards as we have gone too far forwards that we have no more aspirations and ambitions. Sometimes, we may even jump of a swing. We do this to launch ourselves away from a situation, perhaps to add another perspective and to appreciate and reflect on how far we've come. Push yourself to the highest heights, but don't drag yourself backwards with regret and sorrow.

Our actions and mind set in life is sometimes like a climbing frame. Like in a park, there is grounding to our decisions and above this foundation there is a climbing frame. This climbing frame is the climb we have to take to reach the top - our ambitions and goals. At the time, it seems laborious and not worth it due to the hard effort and tiresome feeling we experience... However, once we reach the top we feel glorious and fulfilled. From the top of the climbing frame, we can look down to the ground. On the ground there's people who have lost out on exploring their dreams as they had no motivation or ambition. On the ground you can see a reflection of yourself smiling as you've reached the top after all that time. So, keep climbing, as when you have exhausted yourself, the reward will await you.

After everything we've ever said or done, we feel like a roundabout. This roundabout symbolises the feeling that we are going around and around in circles - never ending circles. We feel like we go through life making choices and decisions, however, we always feel like we have returned back to square one. Square one of many. We need to appreciate that at times we will return to where we started, but that's only because we've perhaps missed something out that we need to amend, or, that we haven't made the right choice the first time.

We shouldn't have to be stationery like park equipment, and most of all we shouldn't live our lives in the same way...