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I never really cared for Physics. All of those Laws and Formulas seemed too abstract to be useful to anyone but an Astronaut or Physicist. And certainly not to me, as a future resort hotel manager. I never had an apple fall on my head, but I realize now that when applied to things other than fruit and celestial bodies, Sir Isaac Newton’s three Laws of Motion are the perfect way to realize happiness and success in one’s life. Newton’s Three Laws of Motion are, “1. An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. 2. The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force, and in the same direction as the net force. 3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

In order to be happy and successful I need to be an “object in motion.” I never understood this concept until one day I realized that I had become an “object at rest.” Life is a continual process, the clock never stops, 20 becomes 80, and wrinkles are inevitable. When I was a child and my brother lovingly jumped off of the teeter-totter while I was in mid-air, I would always be slammed violently to the ground, therefore becoming a, very mad, object at rest. As an object at rest I experienced a whole battery of emotion from discontentment to boredom and apathy (not to mention a sore tail bone), all of these things had made me unhappy and hopelessly unsuccessful. That unhappiness and lack of success was just the “unbalanced force” I needed to put myself in motion again.

My decision to be an object in motion, to continually accelerate and move forward, has to be driven by a force. I’m not talking about the “let the Force be with you” kind of force, but something more directly applicable to every day life. I am accelerated by the finality of my decision to be an object in motion and by the concrete belief that this will lead me to happiness and success in my life. Happiness and success are strong forceful motivators, therefore I will continue to move forward and accelerate in the same direction and with the same magnitude as my conviction to be an object in motion.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. My reaction to becoming an object at rest had led me to realize with a certain zeal and passion that there is only one way to become happy and successful, and that is to be a balanced object in motion. Using that same reaction as fuel, I will be able to realize my dream of graduating from college, all the while moving forward, and continually accelerating towards happiness and success. The sky is the limit; however Astronaut or Physicist probably still will not appear on my resume.