Monday, January 5, 2009

Physics Applied to Human Relationships

All actions have an equal and opposite reaction. Physicists have proven this central law of physics down the to the subatomic scale. So why is it then so difficult to recognize that such a law also exists at the human scale. Causal relationships that can be drawn in any number of directions across multiple points or perspectives, are so great in number and rich with possibility that we must indeed begin to recognize that with every decision, transaction, point of engagement, there are consequences. Or perhaps we do recognize this causal relationship we have with all that surrounds us, but given the magnitude of the results, we choose what is easiest—see the effects that are closest to us and ignore the reverberations beyond our immediate surroundings. The inherent problem here is that we have grown our reaches far beyond our immediate world—the world comprised of our immediate relationships. Globalization has created a new spectrum through which our daily choices travel far beyond our localized experience.

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