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Ode to Gravity
March 23rd, 2005 / #awesomeness, #random
Just when you think nothing can look up, things fall down. Perhaps I’m being a bit too cryptic.
Today, as I took a jolly jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog, I got to thinking as each of my feet hit the ground. I thought about lots of stuff, but mostly how thankful I am for gravity’s perfect attendance record.
Sure, you can overlook it as easily as one takes breathing or meiosis for granted. But once you take into consideration the fact that in billions of years, gravity hasn’t taken one sick day, governmental holiday, or weekend in its timeshare in Southern San Bernardino. Gravity doesn’t even go home: it spends day after day cooped up in its little office, ordering in Chinese food on the company’s budget.
And how are we beneficiaries of gravity’s undaunted work ethic? Everything we hold dear, gravity, too, holds near. However, gravity is not so developed as a workaholic tot he point of overbearing dominance upon the surface of the earth. That is, gravity is like a cool babysitter that holds its children close but allows a certain degree of independence. While we are held to the globe like a fly on spherical sticky paper, gravity allows us to lift our feet to move.
For its unceasing respect for the terrestrial responsibility to which it has been ascribed, for the dominant execution of its duty, and for its flexibility that correlates with our human desire for controlled independence, I commend Gravity and owe to her much of my good fortune.
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The Surfer by Tony Kamel
Watch out for that gravity storm. (You don’t get no warning sign)
“gravity sucks!†-Inertia
It’s supposed to keep you down to earth.
I thought it said “Ode to Gravy.â€
What a letdown.
Gravity is overrated. I ascribe more of my thanks to the quantum mechanics which hold our universe together at the most basic level.