Apr 16, 2007 13:06
The lattice of Newton’s theory of gravity and motion, when laid over ones life takes on a whole new meaning. Simply stated an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force, the beauty in Newton’s theory lie’s in its implied simplicity, but when applied to the human heart and soul the true complexity of the theory becomes unbearably clear.
For fundamentally it talks about change, we are all hurtling through space at our own speeds and pace seemingly, and randomly colliding into one another. Sometimes these collusion, let’s call them “meetings” push us indirection we could have never dreamed of going our selves, and sometimes they stop us dead in our tracks. Now While Newton’s law seems absolute it is incomplete when applied to the human heart and soul. Four one reason alone, that begin this; when a rock per say is at rest on the ground it cares not about it’s current state of inertia nor dose it care if it is suddenly picked up and thrown far away, and as far as I know the change in states has little to no effect on the rock’s emotional and mental state. People on the other hand are not rocks (even if we like to think of ourselves as such) each time on person “meets” another both have the potential to effect the state of the other dramatically. Most people are not rigid and unchangeable and it is in this fact that one might see the rock as has having the advantage, for you see a rock (one could only guess) knows unquestionably what it is, while on the other hand that level of certainty is rarely given to the individual. We all need one another to define us either by contrast; “I may not fully know who I am but I know I am not a raciest” or through compliment; “We complete one another for he’s strengths fill my weakness and vise a versa”.
We are all connected in one way or another, some much closer then others, so my question is this I suppose; “What happens when one person meets another and that meeting changes not the person but everything else around them?”
”Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”
James A. Balwind
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