SherrieTheriault
January 29
Inertia
in·er·tia
n.
1.
Physics. The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the
tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line
motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside
force.
2.
Resistance or
disinclination to motion, action, or change
This force is real; the laws that govern it act on me for
well and ill. When I’m on a roll it’s
hard to guide me and like the girl with the curl; when I’m stuck, I’m very,
very stuck and it’s awful.
I am bound by this reality and go or stay according to what
is set in motion or stopped, but what about ‘the outside force’? Am I in charge of summoning ‘it’ or is ‘it’
summonable at all? Will ‘it’ obey like
the dog, or obey like the cat? Or is
‘it’ more random than the rain? Can ‘it’
be lured or tempted or does ‘it lure and tempt me? And the biggest questions on my mind: Is ‘the
outside force’ also subject to inertia?
Are we in this together? What is ‘its’ outside force? Might it have something to do with me?
Wash one pain at a time
You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to
Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
http://www.amazon.com/More-Sober-The-Way-Sane/dp/144141231X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374072329&sr=8-3&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane
http://www.amazon.com/Lines-My-Life-Sherrie-Theriault/dp/1448652820/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374072576&sr=1-1&keywords=Lines+from+my+life%2C+Sherrie+theriault