Sometimes I have a nervous energy that makes it impossible to sit still. It bothered me until I looked up a few facts on movement that made it obvious that it’s not my fault:
Where I live, the Earth rotates on its axis and spins me at almost eleven-hundred kilometers per hour (about three kilometers per second), the Earth rotates around the sun at slightly over one-hundred thousand kilometers per hour (over two hundred and fifty kilometers per second), our sun moves around the galaxy at a speed of almost eight hundred thousand kilometers per hour (over two thousand kilometers per second), and our galaxy is travelling through the universe at over two million kilometers per hour (almost six thousand kilometers per second).
To counteract the above, I suppose the Earth could be seen as a stationary object and the universe, the galaxy, and the sun could be moving relative to me. But that just makes me dizzy.
When I start to think about stuff like this I usually sit on my sofa, turn on the TV, and let my brain soak up the inanity; a constant source of brainless comfort, and an absurd escape from reality…occasionally, if I suddenly realize I’m squandering time, I decide to turn the TV off, sit still, and meditate…
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db johnston
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