When the rides are over... turn out the lights

Yesterday, I went to "La Ronde", which is part of Six Flags amusement parks. It was huge! I rode so many rollercoasters that made my stomach settled in my throat for short periods of time, and some of the rides made my head feel like I was spinning - after the ride was over. So, it was good. But after the day, I was reflecting on how life seems like one big rollercoaster, where we wait in lines and pay our dues so that we can have fun and experience some thrilling phenomenons momentarily; only to wait in line and pay our dues for the next big ride. The rides are worth the wait (at the theme park), but as I'm sitting here at a computer trying to communicate some essence of the overall experience, I realize that I'm not on the rollercoasters anymore. It was just a temporary fulfillment of pleasure for my adrenaline and manhood (to some extent - because girls ride the rollercoasters, but men conquer them).
So, now that I'm without the rollercoasters, I can either go back to them in order to distract myself longer from the 'norm', or I can deal with the bigger issues of what happens when the rides and the everyday life are over.
I used to listen to the Doors a lot. I used to dig how much Jim Morrison's lyrics were so "out there" and transcendental. I used to read a lot of Thoreau during these times too. I was really looking for the artists with the trippiest lyrics, poetry, music, artistry - whatever - as long as it made me dazzle in moments where reality was but a door to real thought. I wanted to fish deeper for unlocked puzzles and search beaches of mystery for treasures of the mind. So, thinking through my rollercoaster experience and analogy for the pleasures & distractions of this world - I thought of one of the songs by Jimmy M & the Doors that I used to listen to, "When the Music's Over".
This song's (which I will refrain from posting all the lyrics because of the length) main theme is that when the music (or life) is over, we'll just turn out the lights, as if we have real control over what happens next.
Morrison wrote lines such as "Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection, Send my credentials to the house of detention, I got some friends inside"
He even yells near the end of the song, "Save us! Jesus! Save us!" But ends the song with the claim that "Music" or life is your only friend until the end - and Morrison is so unclear about what he expects to happen - except that he wants to be in charge of it. But I thought of him as a man that rode the rollercoasters of life and wrote lyrics that said "We want the world and we want it NOW!" He was an icon and still is idolized by so many. But I don't think that he was ready for what happens when the rollercoasters, or music as he calls it, to be over.
We've got the answer that we can share with these people!
As I was walking in the tunnel of the metro this morning, I had a picture in my mind of the six people in front of me and the judgment of God. May we tell those around us about Jesus - because when the music is over - it'll be too late. The judgment is real - but so is the love of God and His sacrifice which was the payment for what we could never afford.
May we have a God-entranced vision of all things, so that we may offer hope to the people lost in the music and rollercoasters of life - because there are only so many distractions possible - then reality. There is nothing that will bring people joy outside of God - may we offer the answer to what happens when the music really is over.
May the words of Jim Morrison break our hearts for the lost who think this way: "This is the end, my only friend the end".

"...For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him" - 2 Tim. 2:11
Child of God.
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