It tells volumes when people cite Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, with this wise remark that to stay on your place, you have to run as fast as you can.
Is it? Why?
Seriously, why?
Why do people tend to make a cult out of everything? Do they really try to make some super wise thing out of just a book? Any book? (Hello, the holy ones.)
Lewis Carroll showed the absurdity of our world through the absurdity of the wonderland. That was his point, I bet my two dollars banknote.
Tailwind
What if, what if, just what if.
What if those people who run as fast as they can, what if they have no time to stop and actually think a little, so that’s the exact reason they stay at the same place they are, huh?
If she stays perfectly at her place by running quickly, what would happen if she’ll stop? Will she stay at the same place?
- No? If no, what does she expect to achieve? Move? Just move? But where? Anywhere? She’s avoiding exactly the thing she’s willing to achieve by trying very hard, right?
- Yes? If she would stay at the very same place by not trying as hard, what if she’ll just stop and think. And try figuring out the physics in her universe, so to get some tailwind?
Quicksand
She may not like the place she’s at, and trying very hard is something that makes her stop noticing things she dislikes. By running and running and running, she has her chance at making her legs stronger and actually leaving the place, apparently very slowly. But this does not answer the question, what would happen if she’ll just stop and relax.
What if her situation is a quicksand?
If we take it not as a figure of speech, but as a literal sinking sand, we have to know a couple of things.
- It is impossible for a human to sink entirely into quicksand, due to the higher density of the fluid.
- Quicksand may be escaped by slow movement of the legs in order to increase viscosity of the fluid, and rotation of the body so as to float in the supine position (lying horizontally with the face and torso facing up).
So the solution is to stop panicking, and relax. And try to find the solution by not taking too much action.
While it could be difficult thing to do, not doing a thing, sometimes it’s the best you can do.
And doing nothing often leads to the very best of something, remember?
If we’re pretending books are so good at preserving humans’ wisdoms, why not get help from just another British genius, right?