Motion is given

NOTHING MOVES UNTIL IT IS MOVED

Motion is not born, it is given. Everything, a ball, a stone, any object capable of moving or movable, waits in patience, in inertia, until a force from outside of it comes to move it. We are no different as humans. A man sits in silence until a thought, a memory, a voice, moves him to rise. A revolution sleeps in the bones of the oppressed people until a single spark makes it roar. Love is a quiet thing until a glance, a touch, a word, sets it ablaze. Every action is a reaction, every step a response to some unseen mover.

We like to believe we are the authors of our own motion, that our will is purely ours, but will itself is shaped by hunger, by fear, by the weight of history, by the whisper of another man's voice. To act is to be acted upon. To move is to be moved. Nothing moves itself, all action is born from interaction, from the push and pull of forces beyond the solitary.

Are you in motion or waiting to be set in motion? What is that thing that is capable of moving you? What are you looking to move after you have been set in motion? These are questions we must ask and answer for ourselves. Until we begin to make things happen for us, nothing will actually happen for us. Life does not present to anyone their desires on a plater of gold. Those who desire to get something or become anything must go fight for what they want.

It is difficult to stop a moving train. Once in motion, you will continue to be in motion, motion becomes a thing of ease, it is achieved effortlessly, and you can go as far as you want to. Sometimes, it is even difficult for you to stop yourself when you are in motion, not to talk of being stopped by an external force. You have got to start moving. As Robin Sharma once said, "Nothing happens until you move, nothing transforms until you execute." So, move, and execute.

To a better you, Kamikun John.