We’ve all become pretty used to being on the ground. But we all know what happens when we don’t stand on anything. When that happens we fall. The young girl pictured here, for instance, is plummeting down toward the ground, and all because she is not standing on a solid surface!
We could smirk and be jovial about this, but it’s an indication of how powerful, and destructive, gravity can be. No matter how strong you are, no matter how healthy, lean or disciplined, you can never overcome its might. You fail to stand on something and YOU WILL FALL. Just like this feckless child.
Gravity is indiscriminate in its pulling. It pulls old and young, short and tall, fat and thin, fish and chips, Terry and June - everything. There’s no escaping it. Even if you were to try really hard.
The most dangerous aspect of gravity is that we have become so familiar with its presence. We no longer, as our cavemen ancestors did, fear its power or capabilities. We get on with our lives, almost forgetting that it exists at all... Until the floor we walk upon turns out to be hopelessly wrong and we tumble, inexorably, to our demise. Our final calls for help falling upon deaf and unhearing ears.
Gravity is dangerous and we should never forget that, lest we fall prey to its vicious and predictable schemes, which mainly involve us falling to our death.
It happened to my brother, and it’s really not a pretty sight to see every single time you close your eyes.
As Real Thing sang, in their classic gravity themed hit: “All you people with your heads on the ground/Can you feel the force?” - they understood that the reason that our “heads” are trapped upon the surface of the Earth is because of The Force. The Force of Gravity.
