Motion Concept

Motion concept
I learned about motion in my high school physics class. I didn't pay much attention. Years later thinking back I was struck by how applicable the laws of motion are to the concept of change. What is in motion wants to remain in motion. This deals with momentum. When an object is moving one direction it has force behind it. It takes friction to oppose that force and slow it down. It takes an equal force to stop the object’s motion altogether and it takes an even greater force to change its direction I'm not into baseball but go with me. A baseball won’t move until it’s forced.
Someone has to throw it. Once it’s hurtling through the air wind resistance, or friction, will slow it down. Over time, with enough friction, the ball will stop and land on the ground. You could stop that ball faster if you aimed it at a wall. The force of the wall is at least equal to the momentum of the ball. The ball will hit the wall and drop to the ground. If the force is great enough, the ball might even bounce back a little. Now let’s say you want to change the ball’s direction. You want to hit it out of the park. You’re going to apply much greater force by swinging a bat at the ball. When that bat connects, it will drive the ball the opposite direction.
            People are just like baseballs. For whatever reason we’re hurtling in one direction. Sometimes we’re flying down a certain path in life and nothing is slowing us down. Sometimes the friction of life is enough to slow us down. But if we want something different, we need a new force to stop our momentum and a much greater force to change our direction.
            Let’s go to another example. If your car is rolling down a hill it has momentum behind it. It will take greater momentum to push the car back up the hill. One time my car stalled just as I crested a hill. My car immediately started rolling backwards down the hill because gravity was providing momentum. I jumped out of the car and yelled across the street for three guys to help me. They were able to push the car up the hill into the safety of a parking lot. They provided a greater force which changed the direction of my car.
Just like pushing my car up a hill, change can be hard. At the very least, all change requires a greater force to change than it does stay the same. if we can accept this concept we will stop daydreaming about how nice it would be if change was easy. We can understand that we cannot change direction without friction and that we need a greater force to make change.

* Fun for me to read this. I defiantly see how everything is trending certain ways. The older I get the more incremental the change. I know that if I try to do too much I've already plotted my own failure. I now try to chip away at things building up my margin. Playing the slow game. 37 has been a different perspective. There are so many things I told myself needed to happen by now in life but once certain years are gone they are gone, no going back. Less pressure. I took chances and tried to get the most out of the opportunities I had when I was younger. No one told me that failing was just learning. Playing the slow game. 50 doesn't seem that old anymore, 60. I'm definitely focused on health first but also enjoying the little routines of my life as I know now everything just keeps moving.