Due to the Magnificence Half

Our cups of paint swing with a common predictability, with an authentic trajectory of our personal units, however with a future predetermined by the legal guidelines of physics.

After we simply stand again and observe, indescribable magnificence is revealed to us.

But it surely’s laborious for us to only stand again. We wish to put our arms on and see if we are able to management these mighty forces, simply as we wish to problem ourselves by working down the hill in entrance of the college.

I see that the paint is flowing in a stream from the underside of the cup, pooling the place it lands.

The grown-up is urging me to let it go, so I lastly do, and see that it swings, making a straight line.

And that is what occurs once I give it a push in one other course.

It is an experiment, in fact, nevertheless it’s additionally laborious to not see it as a type of battle between the forces of nature and man’s everlasting wrestle to regulate them. Or possibly it is only a wrestle to return to grips with them.

One time, as we performed with our portray pendulums, an inevitable geologic course of was coming to a head below Tokyo, one that might quickly devastate an unsuspecting nation. Hundreds of thousands of individuals have been to be horribly reminded of the supreme energy of nature; how skinny that veneer of management actually is.

How courageous we have to be, actually, to go about our lives realizing that the flip aspect of that indescribable magnificence is indescribable tragedy.

I suppose it is regular to wish to defend our kids from this, at the least till they’re older and someway extra subtle, however on the identical time I think they understand it already, maybe not intellectually, however at a deeper stage, as a result of they’ve tried the experiment of working down the hill in entrance of the college and have fallen on the concrete.

And as soon as the ache has subsided, they’re going to wish to strive it once more. That is due to the sweetness half.

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