Space Mountain

Ronan Keating once said that life is a rollercoaster.
You remember the up's more than you remember the downs.
That obvious, because your brain is gonna have a higher activity level when you are tense and scared and looking over the edge to a huge drop, while you hear the constant click clack of the coaster ticking away.
And then when you go, you let go of all your brains feelings and just enjoy the moment.
You rarely remember that bit in as vivid a detail.

But you know it was the best moment. Why?
Because you were underwhelmed.

Because the drop wasn't as good as you expected.
Or as scary as you'd thought.
Or as brilliant as you'd hoped.

It was, instead, a good experience.
And you lose your fear of rollercoasters and such thrill things, and you go in search of the next one. With your mind safely knowing that anything as scary as that last ride can easily be conquered.

Why can't that sort of feeling transfer into everyday things? That thrill seeking?
That knowledge-overpowering-fear feeling?

Instead of remembering the lows in our lives, and using them, we try to forget them, even though that they too, were underwhelming.
You never feel as bad as you fear you do. But we always will fear we might.

I guess it's some sort of cruel human nature.

The bigger the drop, the higher you must have came from.
Sometimes people are too scared of going that high up, because they fear the drop will be too much.

The drop won't be that bad. I promise.