Metaphor Battle - Will Update Later

I have an impeccable ability to make an analogy or metaphor for almost anything in life.

Recent Analogies...
1. The searing pain in your thighs when you ride: Imagine squeezing a fully inflated basketball in between your thighs while in "up" part of a sit up position until it pops. Then when it pops, do it again. It might be about half the pain.

2. Relationships: I like to envision them as a jumping course. When you're confident you know that you're going to set up properly and soar right over each combination. You no longer have 5 senses. Everything combines into one. Like the hearts of two people in love. Your heartbeat synchronizes with the hoof beats and you float fluently but powerfully; like waves on the ocean. You glide as one with your mount.
But when you're having a sketchy run, things get intimidating. Your heart tiptoes into every single beat. Your eyes can't perceive everything that's going on in front of you. Your senses are all over the place and you’re suddenly lost on this feral beast with no sense of the direction. Your heart skips beats before, after and over the jump. You hold on for dear life and just wait to make it through. You can’t look the judges in the eye. Your trainer is disappointed. You let your horse and yourself down.
You get a rush from both but in different ways. A good run gives you a warm, safe, comfortable and satisfied feeling. A bad run gives you a feeling like you’re dizzy and drained of blood. It’s like love. Situation 1 is similar to a stable, good relationship, where you know that the person will be there for you, even if it’s to say nothing. But situation 2 represents the relationship in which you don’t know if the person is even going to love you from day to day. And it isn’t necessarily always boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, etc. relationships. Friendships are the same way.