18. Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho

"At the moment, i'm far too lonely to think about love, but i have to believe that it will happen, that i will find a job and that i am here because i chose this fate. The roller coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances; its wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and disatisfied when you don't manage it.

It isnt easy being far from my family and from the language in which I can express all my feelings and emotions, but, from now on, whenever I feel depressed, I will remember that funfair. If i had fallen asleep and suddenly woken up on a roller coaster, what would i feel?

Well, i would feel trapped and sick, terrified of every bend, wanting to get off. However, if i believe that the track is my destiny and that God is in chage of the machine, then the nightmare becomes something thrilling. it becomes exactly what it is, a roller coaster, a safe, reliable toy, which will eventually stop, but, while the journey lasts, i must look at the surrounding landscape and whoop with excitement."