Friday, February 15, 2008

Physics and brain power.

When I was in school, I really sucked at soccer. I realise now that the fault lay in my premise for how the world functions. I would try and work out where the ball would come and be there waiting for it. But, of course, the ball was where it was because of a struggle, a struggle that my premise, that the ball would come to a location, excluded me from. Years later, it finally dawned on me to go to the ball, and lo and behold, I became much better at the game. That is, unfortunately, a true story. I am an idiot.

I believe that it reveals a truth that has value in a wider context. There is scant evidence we shall get the lives we desire by sitting back and waiting for them to come to us.