Most of you know, I am a pretty big fan of Albert Einstein.

He seemed to be one of those brilliant, amazing people… maybe the brightest…. but he also spoke a great deal about the human condition.

And of course there is the Theory of Relativity. And boy, oh boy…. it is a really good one!

In the very simplest of terms… it explains that light always travels at the same speed. That’s one part. It also explores the idea that time slows down and things do not happen at exactly the same time. For you… something may seem like it happens in a certain sequence of time. But for someone else… it might appear to happen in an entirely different way. There are twin paradoxes at work in the universe…. you see.

At any rate… it is highly complex and confusing… not only to me.. but even to scientists. Oh Albert. Dear Albert.

But we ALL DO understand how things can be “relative”… … … it happens every time we turn around… and click our heels three times.

Let’s say for instance, you get the opportunity to eat ice-cream and play super fun games… for an hour. That hour will go by pretty quickly. Now let’s say you have to hold 40 pounds of bricks for one hour while listening to badly sung versions of The National Anthem. That hour will probably go by very slowly.

Here is another. This one is very pertinent. Place yourself in Ohio, in late October. You are listening to the morning news. The weather dude gives you the very bad news… “…. and tonight we are expecting temperatures to dip below freezing folks. That’s right. Tonight we could see a low of 31 degrees.”

Well… you drop your spoon in your Fruit Loops bowl.. and say with a sense of loathing.. “Dang. THAT is cold. We are going to freeze our butts off tonight.”

NOW… fast forward to January. Still Ohio. You hear some news again. We’ve had a month long of subzero temperatures and more than our fair of snow. Again, according to the weather dude… “we are in for three solid days of below zero figures. BUT… there is hope folks. On Thursday we may see a high of 22 degrees.”

You do a happy dance right there in the kitchen and starting singing “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas.

You see…. it is all relative.

Really everything in life is considered in relation or in proportion to something else. Our perspectives, viewpoints, and on. It is all relative.

One thing is for sure. I bet if Albert were here, he would be feeding the deer. But when he’d go outside….. with his brain always churning out the math the way it did…

He would probably be cold and calculating.

 

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
– Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
– Albert Einstein

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
– Albert Einstein