Ride A Roller Coaster

Life is like a roller coaster. You ride up and down on drastic hills that speed around corners and then slow down before the next big hill. You have to learn to look outside the car every once in a while to see what's going on around you and enjoy the beautiful view and awesome new perspective each one of those hills, or experiences, offer. And throughout the course of our life, we may grow to find lots of different roller coasters. Some new. Some old. Some big. Some small. Each one with its own experience. Well, the past week I feel as though I experienced an entire roller coaster ride and now its time for me to slow down and take in all that's happened.

My cousins came up for the weekend. The cousins I haven't truly spent time with since I was a LITTLE kid. One in particular I haven't really seen since I was 8 but having them both together was an even more rare feat. It was a fun weekend for me playing video games, going to Kings Island (lol hence the roller coaster anaolgy), watching movies, and learning things about each other that none of us knew about each other. The experience was more like riding an old ride that you haven't ridden in a long long time, and you forgot over the course of a few years why you loved it to begin with. It was joyous and my heart warm and happy. Very much needed. And essentially, it set me up for something that threw me downhill quickly.

Yesterday, I hit the bottom of a hill again. My family decided it was time to put our dog to sleep. He has been so sick, living off steroids, and lived an entire year and a half longer than the veterinarian originally said he would. He had a strong spirit and I think he would have pushed himself to stay alive even through the pain of suffering his tumors were putting him through. It's very sad and I'm feeling reluctant to post this but I also feel the need to vent and share. I know, in my lifetime, I'll never have a dog quite like him ever again. He was loyal, sweet, caring, and very obedient. He was simply a classic. Everyone that met him told me they wanted a dog just like him because a dog like him is so rare. As weird as it may be, he was more than a dog to me. He grew to be something bigger to my family than anyone of us thought before and it had us all in tears. But without further ado, R.I.P Bonzi. You were loved in many ways from many, many people.


^OLD picture from when I was about 10. Bonzi was less than a year old and I have to say this is my favorite picture of him since there are very few from when he was a puppy.

Hope everyone has a great weekend coming up. Going on a motorcycle trip down to the Tail of the Dragon. Should have lots of awesome pictures to come back with :) Keep smiling. Keep doing the things that make you happy.. and never give up on the things that keep you going in life. For me - Photography.

BROOKE