I went with my co-workers to Cedar Point, Sandursky. We started at 2 PM from Farmington Hills. I was very prompt in going to the lobby to wait for others to join the trip. All of us are new to this part of the country and to be honest to the US as such. I requested the front-desk assistant for a map to Sandursky from Farmington Hills. To our dismay the printer refused to cooperate with our planned amusement park trip.

The first roller-coaster ride started with handling the printer and taking a print-out. It was a very warm Saturday afternoon. We navigated all our way to Cedar Point. The second ride was at the ticket counter. Our international debit cards refused to work and we pooled money to buy tickets.

We were excited about our rides. I had never been to an amusement park in all my life and since my childhood I am suffering from vertigo. I was determined to defeat my fear. I had never even had a giant wheel ride.

All of us confidently stood in the queue for one of the ride. We never bothered to worry about the twists and turns of the ride and my heart started missing its beat and my mind was clouded whether to be a part of the ride.

I did not want to show my meekness to my co-workers. My turn came to sit in the ride. The assistant helped us to lock the seat belts and the seats as such. I felt as if I was sealed to the seat. The train started chugging and it went to a good altitude for 140 ft. Suddenly, I do not know why it went berserk. It dropped, twisted, turned, wriggled, and turned all of us 180 degrees upside down. I closed my eyes and called the name of my Lord and shrieked and so where others. I forgot that there was a camera in front of me recording my reactions. It went for 2 minutes and suddenly it halted and when I opened my eyes I knew the machine was calm and composed and it was waiting for others to see its might.

We got down and started laughing while discussing our experiences. We went to the counter and there we saw the camera had recorded our reactions. I laughed at myself for being hyper.

In our lives we have several such roller coaster rides, we cry scream and go in frenzy. Unfortunately these rides are not for 2 minutes it is much more than that; perhaps for days, months and years. When we come out of those rides we never reflect on how we were. If at all we can reflect on those like the video footage, all of us might laugh at ourselves for not being a sport, and thinking laterally to handle situations!