Lessons from gravity

In my previous post I alluded to the power of gravity and the notion that it can help facilitate collaborative living on earth (a concept I would like to term “back getting”). Now, I’m no scientist, but, with a mostly-forgotten high school education in physics, I feel qualified to at least mention the word. Gravity. Gravity is one bizarre thing. It keeps things together yet it is not (itself) visible to the naked eye. It seems that if gravity had a kind of human form it would come in the apparition nature that we so conscientiously talk about but never see. Gravity’s always there, it does not need to be prompted and it always stands ready. With gravity, there are no ambiguities; it knows what it stands for. Need I mention that it is “grounded”? We learn from Newton’s alleged apple experience that gravity never fails – what goes up on earth, must come down!

Imagine if we had to uphold the spirit of gravity as earthlings. I’m convinced that each of us know what kind of “gravity” exists between us and those we know. I dare to say that gravity exists even between us and those we don’t know. Upholding the spirit of gravity would mean we’d naturally be there, no need for pretence shenanigans and we’d let things be. When we help, the action isn’t seen as the word. Because we would be drawn to do what’s right and constant, we wouldn’t even feel the “fulfillment” of “helping” another because we are operating in the realm of gravity, which suggests unconditional, selfless action. In the spirit of gravity we do something as if we would not have done something else. In fact, no alternative act comes to our mind as our predisposition would be one dimensional. May you always have someone’s back, at the least? Let’s learn from gravity.