The website is down right now, so I am constructing this post in an email that I’ll send to myself and post when IXwebhosting gets their crap together. Tonight has me thinking about the Snowball effect, or as it is better known, Newton’s first law. Inertia is the ability for an object forced into motion (generally through an expenditure of activation energy) to remain in motion. Likewise, A body that comes to rest tends to stay in that resting state unless another trigger situation fires it into life. I can apply this to all sorts of stuff. It works for the explosive violence people are capable of and tend to sustain through the duration of their anger and or stress condition. It works for exercise in that once you get moving and into a good flow you tend to be able to continue. It works here at the 10 minute rule as evidenced by 2500+ posts (I have to go back and check the numbers as I indicated in that sleepy post last night.
2535. Trigger Situation
It also works for me getting off my butt and into gear.
What is that activation energy? If I had the answer I would not be in debt. I cannot articulate the thing in any way that matches human language. It is a feeling that lingers at the blurred edges of my perception, waiting to creep closer and closer still. I see the opposite of it very clearly. I recognized it in myself when I saw it in my Jets last night. I watched the confusion on defense, the lack of confidence from the coaches (read: high order functions) which led to an utter disarray on the field and once even a 12 men penalty (read: lapsing into bad habits and not trusting myself). This vision, scattered and temporary as it was, pointed to a very clear understanding:
I really need to get my shit together and back to the successful way.
After all, nobody wants to end up like the Jets.