Springs Unsprung
I remember staring bleakly at my homework, back in the high school days. I wasn’t estatic about science. The text was explaining the two forms of energy, potential energy and kinetic energy. And I was reading over it for the nth time.
The subject comes to mind when I think of my generation. Potential energy is like the taunt spring on a mouse trap: it has the potential to snap something, do something, move in some way, but hasn’t as of yet. That sounds like my generation. We have all these tools at arms reach, online and off. The world is at our fingertips in many ways. We could do something; too often we don’t.
We’re scared, we’re shy, we’re unsure. We wait for the “big opportunity” without realizing we’re living in it.
In his essay on youth and age, Francis Bacon said, “The errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.” I don’t want to look back on a life that could’ve been. Neither do you. We have the potential to do more, and sooner. Let’s do it. Don’t wait for the mouse.
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