Way Of Physics

Way Of Physics (August 2, 2010)

On a weighing scale, a person of 70kg weighs the same as 70kg of $1,000 notes. But you may not be able to buy the person with these 70kg notes.

This theory works differently from the steel and the feather version. We are often taught during science lessons that steel and feather do fall from their heights at the same velocity. In the early days, some of us might have answered differently to this question. We might have replied with innocence that the feather would still be floating in mid-air by the time the cold hard steel have landed on the ground with a thud.

It is with this innocence that the younger us do observe both the substances as steel and feather. A feather does weigh lighter than steel. This is because we simply recognize the soft and fluffy nature of a feather, and accepted the rigid source of steel. In a way, we apply the same logic to human beings. That even if both possesses similar weight, it is not the same!

On the contrary, there are the majority. The so-called smart ones that the teachers have praised, who agreed with the way of the physics that both are the same. They are not stupid of course. But not the same can be said about how some grew up and effected the way of physics on their fellow people and money kind.

To them, money kind IS mankind. This is equality incepted into their educational system.

I have found something short of being especially nice with my words by calling them moronic. I have met numerous of them and trust me, they are nothing short of what I have described with just that one holistic word.

They have wasted no effort in glorifying the word "moron" and they took the honor of passing it down to their latter generations. Now we see kids behaving like that on the streets.

Boy : How much is that doggie in the window?

Dad: A thousand bucks? I'll buy that for you on your birthday, sonny.

I bet you can get a pretty homeless dog for nothing, and he'll spend the rest of his life with you like any other paid dogs do.

Ah, every breed counts. Isn't it?

But then, I've not had any fantastic education to speak of. When I was younger, I was never taught the value of being proud. Thus, I could not understand the worth of pride.

How much is pride worth? I would be more concerned if I could exchange that for some raise in my bank account. At least that's what I was usually told by my peers. I was more enchanted by the smell of money. The lure of these paper weights that seemed heavier than it's logical definition.

A note of $1,000 weighing less than a gram could get you huge kilograms of rice. It can even buy you some pride, I've seen. How much pride? I have no idea.

We assume again that you have 70 kilograms of hard cash. Try buying someone the same weight. Presuming that the variables are constant in terms of culture, society and personal preferences, you might be able to succeed in balancing the equation.

That,

70KG of money = 70Kg of a human.

I'm not surprised that this equation has been a tradition that has been passed down for centuries. I didn't appreciate human beings the same way that I appreciate money. That is a question mark to me as well. But there is some similarities that I've spotted though, for some exceptionally common people.

A person has a face and a back to show. Either side becomes a cover-up for the other. The dollar sign is written on the faces of some. It does have a number to differentiate. A note has a set of numbers that we humans often use as our contact numbers.

Both are dressed in comfortable looking pieces, usually designed to suit the status of each. Some can be folded like origami, as long as you are in control of it. People need more of it in their pursuit for power and status. They are often problem-solvers, and can even be in control of your feelings and mood.

Presuming that you now know what I'm talking about, you might be having mixed feelings about this.

Precisely.

I've experienced how a gram of these paper could make someone calculate the value of his pride. For these people, pride and money does come together.

It's confusing isn't it? Or am I the one who's confused?

Or is there anyone who doesn't understand what I'm trying to insinuate?

My point is, people do mess things up when they try to put pride alongside money. And when you try to use money as a paper weight on human beings, we lose our sense of direction and we are no longer clear about logic and sense.

I don't understand why some people do that. And when I try to move in and understand these people and try to write about them in my blog, I get a little bit confused just like you when you are trying to understand the mess that I'm writing.

Apparently you'll think that I'm penning some.... Rubbish.

PRECISELY.