Why Do We Fall?

[Destrod 2,634]

                        Why Do We Fall?

 

Most people in our depression webbed society take gravity for granted more than they should. Approximately 100% (and this is being generous) of the human population think about the penny when they bend down to pick it up from the ground, but how did it get there in the first place? This can lead to many plausible scenarios, which also includes accepting the fact that the penny has feelings, and can, when required, lie down on the ground if it wishes that its non-existent life is of no meaning.

 

The answer to my question is simple; we fall because we can't stand up, but what if we can't stand up just because we can fall? This creates even more ambiguity in finding the true answer and results in a cascade of heated battles between the armies of logic and emotion. Logic says, a penny can't have feelings, and thus is unable to choose whether it wants to fall or not; gravity will be the judge of that. But emotion, as with all depressed writers who have nothing better to do, emotion always prevails. Logic, changes. Too radially, I might add. There was a time when gunpowder and hot air balloons were considered myths, and the concept of electrons was a tale of a drunken madman. Look at us now, with our automobiles and nanotechnology, yet we are still as ignorant as we were a millennia ago. Emotion, on the other hand, changes according to the person, and not the modifications of time and era that are around it. Love... is still love. Yes, traditions change, we have homosexual marriage, we have marriages based on lies, we have internet breakups with people that we barely even know, and we pretty much end up going around the Feris Wheel over and over again. Generation to generation, whether holding a clay tablet or a Samsung tablet, the depression, the pain, it's still there.

 

But what does a penny have to do with emotions? When we talk about feelings on a grander scale, Emotions, put simply, don't give a nickel about who it is, or isn't affecting. They don't care one bit whether it's causing a baby to cry or a grown teenager to feel bubbles in his stomach when his/her crush wears a new shirt or shoes. The point is, logic is too dependent. It solely depends on the people it will go to, whether it will be misused, whether someone will force it down someone's throat or enlighten them with gifts of knowledge. It is too affected, and thus vulnerable. Simply because it is human-made, and everything, that humans have, are, or will create, will always make more problems than it will solve. Human beings can never comprehend, we are only as smart as evolution allows us to be, and we can never transcend that barrier of ignorance.

 

When you are on a date, (God help you if you are) and you don't know what Chateau Oberi Vintage 90 means, you'll just order a plain Mint Cocktail right? Why succumb to something that you don't even know about? Stick with the basics. Funny thing about life is, she can never punish you for being a basic person. Rely on what you know. This is what led the middle-aged fanatics into chaos, they started getting tacky, and meddled with things they did not understand. You can never impress people just by using fancy words or a bow tie, that's what logic does to the world. Be simple, be yourself. You don't want them to need your tongue or your brain, they want you, and not pointless blabber coming from someone who tries too hard to impress and doesn't try to care at all. This is the weakness of logic, and you should never let it rule the truth.

 

So in the end, we come still to the path whence we started: why do we fall? After everything you've read, I'm pretty sure you are just as close to finding the answer as you were before, but there's something different. Now you have an opinion. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, the world doesn't care about right or wrong. What it cares about, is the theatre. So at the end, my belief is that we do not fall because invisible forces tug our bodies with a force of 1g, it's because we choose to. Life isn't about making choices, it's about understanding them, our decisions are never our own, they have already been made. The wisest of us are those who understand them beforehand, and prepare for the inevitable doom that awaits them. 

 

Chateau Oberi Vintage 90

[Yisroel.Rabin 16,224]

Very good writing @Destrod. I feel like I read a script of a TED Talk. But before I get to my personal comments on the piece, let me just quickly ramble off the mistakes.

 

First off, and by far the biggest mistake you have is that you overuse commas. I remember this being a problem with me too, but, I, eventually, got over it. See, what I, did there? Besides that, there were not many other mistakes, just maybe a few run-on paragraphs, which you fix by randomly pressing the enter/return key on your keyboard twice anywhere in a long paragraph.  :ph34r:

 

Nevertheless, a very nice piece. I just want to hit on some points, not as a proofreader, just as a reader. It spiked a thought in my mind when you mentioned how just a couple of decades ago certain concepts were simply unfathomable to olden-day society, yet now they're long disregarded because of how simple they are, and how the cycle repeats; meaning that we're just as skeptical about future inventions. Just yesterday TED-Ed released a video about the End of History illusion, which I find fascinating. It pretty is what you describe; we believe history is for the most part over because we are limited by the things we see in front of us, we don't feel like anything will change in fifty years, at least not on such a large scale. However, if you go back fifty years and see how much we've grown since then, it's not like those changes were rational either. Go to tell a man living in the 1980s there will be screens on small metal pieces which you can touch and unlock with your face in 2020. He'll be just as skeptical as you are right now about a robot that builds houses.

 

I also love how you take a shot at the depressed writer out there. A lot of the time this would seem like a depressed writer's piece because it talks about falling and not getting up and all that, but nicely done, you managed to not be depressing.

 

And the final thought is, and this could also be seen as said by a proofreader, the outro was amazing. It's not easy to come up with an outro that recaps everything but still manages to not sound like you're just saying the same thing again. You managed to recap, but also reflect on the article. Nicey done.

Edited September 28, 2018 by Destrod
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[Drazox 665]

Nice so much

 

A new writer was born

Edited September 28, 2018 by 78190-facebook78

[P.4.R.K.O.U.R 329]

Nice.

Though g is the acceleration due to gravity, not a force.

Edited September 28, 2018 by P.4.R.K.O.U.R

[Destrod 2,634]

Very good writing @Destrod. I feel like I read a script of a TED Talk. But before I get to my personal comments on the piece, let me just quickly ramble off the mistakes.

 

some more cavemanish walls of text

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Thank, you, for, your, wonderful, suggestions, I,shall make, sure, that, i, follow, each, and, every, one, to, the,letter.

Edited September 28, 2018 by Yisroel.Rabin
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[thethiefofvictory 339]

We fall because invisible forces tug our bodies with a force of 1g. How dare you deny science? Heretic!

 

Kidding. Good piece. I agree with Rabbit.

[Best_of_thunder_2015 1,354]

Nice.

Though g is the acceleration due to gravity, not a force.

F=MG (mass x Gravity) Newton's 2nd law.

 

Its a force by earth anyways ._   .

[thethiefofvictory 339]

F=MG (mass x Gravity) Newton's 2nd law.

 

Its a force by earth anyways ._   .

*F = ma

[P.4.R.K.O.U.R 329]

That way, 1g is the force acting on a body of mass 1kg.

1kg X 9.8m/s2 = 9.8N

 

Oh ok, maybe he meant 1g-force and not force of 1g...

That's the same way 1kg weight is different from weight measuring 1kg, which is incorrect.

Edited September 28, 2018 by P.4.R.K.O.U.R

[Aigaion 636]

Gravity  :ph34r: but an entertaining article *thumbs up*

[Benefactor 6,889]

So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

[Total_SkiIl 1,983]

we fall because an apple fell on Newton's head and he invented gravity

 

 

waiting for the science nerds to get triggered

 

the rant should have a minimum of 400 words, any less than that would be ignored

 

Edited September 28, 2018 by Total_SkiIl

[Pyre 3,485]

Epic.

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

[TankiNoob2000 231]

Noice:)

[Magenta 5,165]

Logic is not dependant, it is absolute. We just use it wrongly - at all points of time. It's easy to think that logic is human-made, but really, it's the very fabric of nature... mostly. Logic existed before humans, and will continue to exist after humans. It will just lack an user. Maybe.

 

Edit: I liked your point about opinions, btw. It's important to have an opinion, right or wrong; otherwise, it's easy for someone else to manipulate you and ingrain an opinion of their own into you. This is the problem with most of the world.

Edited September 30, 2018 by Magenta

[Mjro7 2,837]

Well done boi !

[Person_Random 4,991]

This makes me think of sermons, but much shorter and way better advice.

 

They won't talk about cocktails in church though...

 

...I hope.

Edited October 8, 2018 by Person_Random