Inertia...

I feel like there is this wonderful momentum behind me. I remember a few months back I felt stagnant and bogged down with the day to day happenings of my life. I was watching people around me take on challenges and opportunities, and I felt like I was barely getting by.

Even after I got my acceptance to the London School of Econ. I still felt like I was readying myself for a slow and steady drift toward my final days in DC. But that's not the case anymore. The word inertia comes to mind.

in⋅er⋅tia
   /ɪnˈɜrʃə, ɪˈnɜr-/ [in-ur-shuh, i-nur-]
–noun
1. inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
2. Physics.
a. the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.
b. an analogous property of a force: electric inertia.


Definition 2.a. gets at what I'm think I'm trying to say...inertia is the word use to describe the movement (or the lack of movement) of a chunk of matter once it hasn't been acted upon by an external force.

Think of me as the chunk of matter, over the last few days I've been moving myself forward and the inertia is growing. Moving my self forward by stepping out there and taking risks, by what seems to be sheer desire to put some extra money in my pocket and conquer yet another thing in my life. I feel like I've unlocked my mother's hustle gene because I've been going night and day for the most part.

There's always that external force though, that thing that has the ability to stop you dead in your tracks. I know what that thing is. Besides death and sickness, for me, it's fear: fear of failing, fear of taking a risk. If I can over come that, I don't think anything or anyone else will stand in my way...and the more my inertia grows the harder it will be to stop me.
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