A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.(Wikipedia) There is a huge number of metaphors of love all over the world made by many individuals. Personally, my favorite metaphor of love is “Love is a rollercoaster”. When I first heard this statement, I guessed some made this metaphor because love has up and down just like a rollercoaster. A person in love can be the happiest person in the world, but as time pasts, that person can get hurt from love and be depressed. This is same as rollercoaster. There is the highest part of track and the lowest part of track for one ride. Other than this aspect of a rollercoaster, there are some more similarities between love and a roller coaster.
First,
there are lots of people who ride rollercoasters because everyone else rides it
even though they are really afraid of it. This part of rollercoaster can also
be found in love. Some people want to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend not
because they like someone but just because many of their friends have ones.
People easily get embarrassed when only they do not have date when everyone
else does. Similar with this situation, if all of her/his friends are going to
ride a rollercoaster, that person would go with them even if he/she doesn’t
really want to because he/she doesn’t want to be left alone. 
Second
similarity between love and rollercoaster rides is that people do it again
after they decided not to do it again. Ones who have hurt their feelings from
love always swear that they would never fall in love again. However, they
eventually fall in love with someone else and then when they get hurt again,
they regret about what they have done. Rollercoaster rides are same as this.
People who have experienced tough rollercoaster say that they will never going
to ride that again, but in the end, when they go to that amusement park again,
they just ride it again. People do love and ride rollercoaster even if they do
know that they will regret it later.
Finally,
rollercoasters and love both excites people. They make people feel thrill about
them. No one knows what would happen and that is excitement of love and
rollercoasters. If people know exactly how the track of a rollercoaster looks
like, it would be boring for them. That is the reason why people want new
rollercoasters every time. They always want to try to ride different one because
the ones that they have already gone are boring now. Love is also like this.
When 2 people fell in love at the first time, it is like the most interesting
thing to get to know each other. However, after several years passed, they will
know so much about each other, and that can bring boredom to their
relationship.
Like this, love and rollercoaster rides have many similarities. Other metaphors also well describe love, but this is my favorite one because it is a metaphor that describes hidden part of love. Most of other metaphors express the beauty of love or the good things of love. However, “Love is a rollercoaster” shows the other aspects of love that people always knew it but did not think of. I think this metaphor expresses the best about love.
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