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WotD: Emotional roller coaster
I’ve heard it said every generation has its challenges.
Well, if that’s true, then mine has had enough for three generations.
Life has been an emotional roller coaster since I turned 18.
When emotions change quickly from happiness to sadness and back again within a short period, it’s like an emotional roller coaster.
As a child growing up, I saw the financial challenges faced by my parents, but I didn’t understand them.
Once I turned 18 and became a man, if that’s possible at 18, it hit home to me just how unpredictable life is.
First, there was a 20% unemployment rate, which was closer to 40% when the people who gave up looking for work were factored in.
That was a downer, for sure.
After moving to Vancouver at the age of 20, I was thrilled to find a job in a golf course clubhouse, washing dishes and doing prep work.
There I was, back up again.
Fortunately, I was able to become a backpacker and travel for ten years while completing my university degree.
During that time, I met my now wife, the only solid rock in my life.
It’s true. Behind every man, there’s an even better woman.
Immediately after our marriage, I became deathly sick.
This is where the comparison of life to an emotional roller coaster very much rings true.
It was touch and go for a few nights when the doctors didn’t think I’d pull through.
Times cannot get any lower than that.
Since then, life in Japan has been on a fairly steady climb.
Now there’s a pandemic to deal with.
You know what?
This emotional roller coaster I’m living through may make a lovely book one day.
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