the energy of motion
I think I want too much at once.
“Not possible,” Darzee says. We are sitting in the Conversation Tent, lazing about and chatting idly.
“How do you know these things?” Balthazar asks, half awed and half frustrated.
A question I’d love an answer to, but a thoughtful voice breaks in on the conversation. “It’s not wanting too much. It’s wanting it all right now.”
A man made of blue lounges in the tent. He is not a man; he has simply chosen to look like one. He is a water dragon who followed me home from a Chinese exhibit at a museum a few years ago. His name is Tau.
“There you are,” I say. I have not spoke to Tau in months.
“I am always here,” he reprimands me lightly. “You have such trouble listening.”
There’s no point in going over that. How does one correctly balance life in two worlds? I route the conversation back to the topic at hand.
“How can I want it too soon? According to all reports, once you line your thoughts up with your desires the universe should bring it to you *poof!* In an instant.”
“You know that’s not how it works,” he says. “That’s just how you *want* it to work.”
“What do you mean?”
“An instant is never an instant,” Tau says. “*Poof* is never like snapping your fingers. In other words, you can’t get something for nothing. You can want it, and you can be in line with it, and the universe can bring it to you, but without motion there cannot be shifting, or change. You move, and in your movement the opportunities come.”
“So you have to move towards something to get it.”
“Exactly,” Tau says. “That’s your biggest problem. You’ve already got the physics of it. Initial inertia is the hardest to overcome. And in this particular scenario, the universe can’t overcome it. You have to push. You have to start the movement. However hard it is to get momentum up, that is what you have to do. And that is why it seems to take so long. Because you have to get continuous motion going. Once you have that, the universe can work with the energy you’ve created.”
“That almost makes sense. But why is it so hard to get things in motion?”
Tau sniffs and leans back in his chair. “Oh now that,” he says. “That’s the thing you keep struggling with and making a huge mess out of, isn’t it?”
