If you remember your Physics, the Doppler Effect causes the sound of an approaching train to get bigger as it gets closer, and smaller as it recedes. My new hypothesis is that we face the Doppler Effect in events that are happening around us too.
Anything, from an election result, to a break-up, always feels as if it has a great impact on our life for a few days after it happens. We think that the new political leader will change everything for the better -in the case of election results. If it's a break-up, we may feel that it's the end of the world. But the world has not ended in spite of many predictions of its demise attributed variously to the Mayans and Nostradamus.
So, as time passes, most of these things reduce in importance, and we reach a state of unattached, neutral, or at least less noisy state as it pertains to the said event. Our high expectations, or suicidal tendencies, as the case may be, give way to equanimity, and we can sometimes even laugh at our previous ideas about the importance of these things to our lives.
Life goes on, in other words, and sometimes for the better. Now, you know why they taught us about the Doppler Effect.
Anything, from an election result, to a break-up, always feels as if it has a great impact on our life for a few days after it happens. We think that the new political leader will change everything for the better -in the case of election results. If it's a break-up, we may feel that it's the end of the world. But the world has not ended in spite of many predictions of its demise attributed variously to the Mayans and Nostradamus.
So, as time passes, most of these things reduce in importance, and we reach a state of unattached, neutral, or at least less noisy state as it pertains to the said event. Our high expectations, or suicidal tendencies, as the case may be, give way to equanimity, and we can sometimes even laugh at our previous ideas about the importance of these things to our lives.
Life goes on, in other words, and sometimes for the better. Now, you know why they taught us about the Doppler Effect.
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