Newton's three laws of life

Sir Issac Newton must be turning in his grave seeing my effort to apply his laws to real life. But we can find some similarity with our life. That is my aim today.

The first law

The first law states that objects will remain
 in rest or uniform motion in a straight line
 unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force.

A rocket needs the most effort while lifting off as it is in a state of rest. To propel itself to a state of motion that too against the gravity, consumes lot of energy.

This is what happens in our life also. When we a start a new thing in life it requires the most energy on our part to give it a momentum. It can be starting a job or a business or a relationship or even your YouTube channel. When we begin a new job it has the backing of all our education of many years. Then in a new job where everything is new, we have to work hard to make our place and get noticed. Similarly while starting a business, there is a lot of hard work involved. We burn a lot of our internal fuel just to make a beginning. There are hundreds of competitors and we have to make our own place among them.

Relationships also require a lot of effort; it may be a romantic one or friendship. To establish the bridge of trust with a new person is not easy. Now a day’s everyone looks at the other with doubt as if there is some personal or selfish interest involved in it. To overcome that, we try to prove our self that our intention is honest.  A common nagging which we hear from wife or girl friend is that previously you used to do so much for me and now you take me for granted. So we don’t maintain the required level of effort once the relation is established.

The second law

Now that you have got the initial push, we have to keep the acceleration maintained.

The second law states that acceleration of an
 object depends on the mass of the object and
 the force applied.

So now you have made a foot hold in your office and your business has started off and your relationship has taken off.  Now you have to maintain the momentum so that others don’t overtake you. But this takes less effort than the earlier case, now you are in familiar territory and you now understand better the rules of the game. You cannot and should not pause now or else you will lose all your momentum. To maintain and increase the momentum you need to put some more effort.

In your office once you get promotion the responsibility ‘mass’ will increase. In business once you plan to scale it up your ‘mass’ of the size of business will increase. In your relationship once love is established then the trust ‘mass’ will increase. And mass has an inverse relationship with acceleration. So to keep on accelerating with an increased ‘mass’, you will need to apply regular effort, otherwise the mass will start decelerating you. Force is directly proportional to acceleration, so the more effort you put the more success you get out of it.

The third law

The third law states that for every action
 there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Does it sound familiar with karma or fate? It is eerily similar. All our life is a sum total of actions we have taken. If we have done good to others then good things will come back the same way. So is with bad things. This is what all our age old teaching say, what goes around comes around. In real life we also find it to be true in most cases. Here opposite doesn’t mean that we are sending out good and bad is coming back, it means what we send out the same thing comes back to us from the opposite direction. When we talk about fate, which is mostly on the negative aspect, we always correlate that fate caught up. It means someone was doing bad to others and getting away with it, but fate intervened and caught up, and now he is facing the same music from life.

In our previous cases, as a job or business or relationship also it is applicable. When we are in a position to help others, then when we are in need of it, those people will stand by me. If in office you boss around too much or if you use unfair means to downgrade a competitor in business or if you break trust in an established relationship, then you will not be kept untouched from its reaction. It will come back to you in some form or other.

So as per the first law of life is meant to work, as per second law our life is meant to continue putting effort to our work and as per the third law, then only we will reap the benefits from the first two laws. If it is positive work and effort then the outcome will be positive only.