Lights out Alice!
Greatness is everywhere. It is just that we never take the time to see it. In this mad rush we would like to call daily life, all we ever do is lie to ourselves as to what is important in life.
Everyday i make mistakes, every day i lose a battle on some front, and i am okay with it. It kills me to the core to see my conscience dying everyday, being unable to shake my very being from the shackles of constant failure that paralyze my ability to succeed day in and day out and in essence, to succeed at all. I have gotten so used to failing to meet my goals everyday that i am unfazed by such failure, to the extend that procrastination in the worst form is taking over my lifestyle, and though i am aware of it's existence, i can only watch as it leads in its wake a terrible remnant of destructive, constrictive and decaying habits.
Boundary Layer:
The idea of the boundary layer leads to all kinds of interesting things. It explains why, for example, your car can be dusty and dirty even though it's racing through the air at high speed. Although it's traveling fast, the air right next to the paintwork isn't moving at all, so particles of dirt aren't blown away as you might expect them to be. The same applies when you try to blow the dust off a bookshelf. You can blow really hard, but you'll never blow all the dust away: at best, you just blow the dust (the upper layers of dust particles) off the dust (the lower layers that stay stuck to the shelf)! The boundary layer concept also explains why wind turbines have to be so high. The closer to the ground you are, the lower the wind speed: at ground level, on something like concrete, the wind speed is actually zero. Build a wind turbine that's way up in the sky and you're (hopefully) reaching beyond the boundary layer to the place where the air speed is a maximum and the wind has higher kinetic energy to drive the turbine's rotors.
Stay inspired and Lights out Alice!
Greatness is everywhere. It is just that we never take the time to see it. In this mad rush we would like to call daily life, all we ever do is lie to ourselves as to what is important in life.
Everyday i make mistakes, every day i lose a battle on some front, and i am okay with it. It kills me to the core to see my conscience dying everyday, being unable to shake my very being from the shackles of constant failure that paralyze my ability to succeed day in and day out and in essence, to succeed at all. I have gotten so used to failing to meet my goals everyday that i am unfazed by such failure, to the extend that procrastination in the worst form is taking over my lifestyle, and though i am aware of it's existence, i can only watch as it leads in its wake a terrible remnant of destructive, constrictive and decaying habits.
I keep on my board over 10 pending items, yet somehow i find time to waste over fictional televised issues of apparent international concern. I believe that the level of procrastination that i am currently at is the most painful and yet painless one to be in. Painful, because i sit here typing as my future dims and the shining light to eternal content is waning gently, but constantly. Painless, because even though i can feel it, breathe it, loathe it and yes, write about it, i am unable to stop this monster called procrastination, its destructive generals halfheartedness and indiscipline.
Man, this fight with the monster inside seems to be the one i am always losing, but the real struggle and the biggest torture is that i don't fail, or i don't get killed. No, the monster will not let me go that easy. It wants me to feel my life slipping, my dreams fading further and further away from me as i sink deeper into the quicksand of mediocrity and adjustment.
The biggest pain that this monster is inflicting upon me is not physical pain, not emotional strain, it is the irk that i will feel for the rest of my life, the irk that will tell me when i will be part of a middle class "decent" pay society, when i will have a "settled family" and "responsibilities", that i could have risen to be something better and beyond what the society pulls you down to, that i could have been someone, but i chose wasting my time watching TV soaps over building a future, over disciplining my life.
p.s: Don't worry, my fast forgetting memory would forget about discipline faster than it forgets names of people it should remember and i will go back to the comfort and care of procrastination very soon, who would welcome me back with loving arms.
Ah i see, you are looking for wisdom on how fluid mechanics is cool, so let me link it below:
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/aerodynamics.html
For starters, i have been a student studying fluid mechanics for a while now and it gets to me every time that the books i read on the one thing that is everywhere is able to turn it into something that is so remote, unimaginable and alien a concept that we all just end up mugging the formulas and asking ourselves why we thought it would be a good idea to study the subject in the first place.
Well here it is, the one paragraph from that article that lit my mind on fire (forgive my puns):
The idea of the boundary layer leads to all kinds of interesting things. It explains why, for example, your car can be dusty and dirty even though it's racing through the air at high speed. Although it's traveling fast, the air right next to the paintwork isn't moving at all, so particles of dirt aren't blown away as you might expect them to be. The same applies when you try to blow the dust off a bookshelf. You can blow really hard, but you'll never blow all the dust away: at best, you just blow the dust (the upper layers of dust particles) off the dust (the lower layers that stay stuck to the shelf)! The boundary layer concept also explains why wind turbines have to be so high. The closer to the ground you are, the lower the wind speed: at ground level, on something like concrete, the wind speed is actually zero. Build a wind turbine that's way up in the sky and you're (hopefully) reaching beyond the boundary layer to the place where the air speed is a maximum and the wind has higher kinetic energy to drive the turbine's rotors.
Stay inspired and Lights out Alice!
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