Roller coaster?

. . . life is a roller coaster, just got to ride it . . . sung by Ronan Keating

I guess life (be it work, personal or anything in between) is indeed like a roller coaster. You start off smooth and slow, working up the anticipation of a thrill as your life sorta goes uphill . . . and yet, once the thrill is over, you wish you had re-lived it more vividly and you wish you can go at it again . . . sometimes you'll get the chance to do it all over again but other times you only get to ride it once . . . and when the thrill is over, that's it, you gotta get off.

What else is there after that . . .
. . . the ferris wheel (where you're taken for a spin up high in the sky) . . .
. . . or perhaps the carousel (all nice to look at ... but they're only make believe horses) . . .
. . . or maybe it's time to leave the park . . .

At the end of the day, it's not what ride you managed to get onto, but perhaps who was beside you during those rides . . . as for me, I am glad to have taken that one particular ride with YOU, my friends. . . fleeting as it may be, but a ride nevertheless that I will cherish and remember for some time even as I leave the park.