Justkeepraining

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Justkeepraining

When I was twelve, I was given an academic diagnostics test.
          
          Later the instructor informed me,
          I had an aptitude for history.
          
          He looked puzzled when I replied:
          “Yeah, but that was yesterday. Today I’m more interested in tomorrow.”
          
          I remember it,
          Because the next day I asked a girl if I could borrow a pen.
          When I offered it back she said:
          
          “You should write me a letter with it first.”
          
          So I did, wrote her a note,
          Which the teacher then intercepted and read to the class.
          
          It was something that we’d learnt in science that day
          
           about the way gravity affects mass and weight
          in relation to how quickly something will fall.
          
          Example:
          A crumpled ball of paper will fall at the same speed as a chunk of granite.
          
          It doesn’t matter how much something weighs,
          It stays the same until you consider surface area and resistance,
          
          At which point the persistence of gravity loses force.
          
          Example:
          Crumple a piece of paper into a ball.
          It will fall more quickly than a loose sheet.
          
          They are both composed of the same mass and weight,
          
          So you’d think that the rate of velocity measured with the force of gravity
          Would cause each to fall at the same speed.
          
          But that’s when you need to consider that the greater surface area of the loose sheet adds resistance.
          So the crumpled ball will fall quickly,
          But the loose sheet will slowly float.........
          
          
          I wrote a note.
          Explaining that when two people fall in love, 
          
          They do so at the same speed.
          
          There’s no need to factor in the physics, explanations are something we can make no use of.
          
          Einstein once said: “Gravity will not be held responsible for people falling in love.”
          
          I wrote a note saying
          
          “If I fall in love with you,
          
          No one will ever be able to explain it.
          
          And I think that’s beautiful.”
          
          -Shane Koyczan