Newton’s Loss
Posted on December 29, 2015
If you could read my story, you would flick between chapters, watching with dread the number of unread pages decrease whilst yearning desperately for the next plot twist.
That’s how I read other people’s stories anyway.
My story is, in many ways, much like the next. There are aspects to most stories that seem to be generic. For example, I have never seen, heard, read or experienced a story in which nothing good is lost.
How odd to think that even the smallest of losses both make and break you, and very rarely do just one or the other.
I moved to Birmingham when I was 14, and left some of my family and friends behind. I cried for a long time. My first significant loss; many people I saw almost every day, never again said hi after my goodbye. The reality of Newton’s third law, thrust upon me at 14.
Moving to Birmingham is one of the best decisions I have made so far. So much of who I am is because of that decision; that painful, inevitable decision to leave.
In the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton mathematically discovered the following:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Already, I have experienced the generic realisation that every character in every story must one day come to.
To move forward, we must leave something behind.
I think that’s what Isaac meant.
MT
More posts at https://maisietruman.wordpress.com/
Posted on December 29, 2015
If you could read my story, you would flick between chapters, watching with dread the number of unread pages decrease whilst yearning desperately for the next plot twist.
That’s how I read other people’s stories anyway.
My story is, in many ways, much like the next. There are aspects to most stories that seem to be generic. For example, I have never seen, heard, read or experienced a story in which nothing good is lost.
How odd to think that even the smallest of losses both make and break you, and very rarely do just one or the other.
I moved to Birmingham when I was 14, and left some of my family and friends behind. I cried for a long time. My first significant loss; many people I saw almost every day, never again said hi after my goodbye. The reality of Newton’s third law, thrust upon me at 14.
Moving to Birmingham is one of the best decisions I have made so far. So much of who I am is because of that decision; that painful, inevitable decision to leave.
In the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton mathematically discovered the following:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Already, I have experienced the generic realisation that every character in every story must one day come to.
To move forward, we must leave something behind.
I think that’s what Isaac meant.
MT
More posts at https://maisietruman.wordpress.com/
