Saturday, February 20, 2010

Newton's Third Law

Force: a : to raise or accelerate to the utmost b : to produce only with unnatural or unwilling effort c : to, strain, or use (language) with marked unnaturalness and lack of ease

By definition, forcing is unnatural. Then why is it so natural for us to want to force things to happen? The desire for results. Impatience. The strength of our desires turns our attention from the foolishness of it all. Force causes acceleration. Acceleration sounds nice. I want what I want and I want it now. Foolishness. Impatience. Every force, unfortunately, causes an equal and opposite force. You can't force fun. You can't force love. You can't force happiness. It always backfires.

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