We pretty much always need an outside force to get us to stop.
Newton’s first law applies to virtually any dynamic system, including the actions and thoughts of organisms.
I see this every day. I try to stop and just take in the moment. But I can’t. I can’t stop. I can’t take in the moment. And it was only for a moment, now it’s gone. And now that it’s gone, I can’t stop thinking about it. I try to stop. I can’t stop stopping. But I also can’t not stop stopping. It’s my struggle. It’s what I struggle with the most. Stopping.
god damn! that’s a really nice grill…
Can’t stop, won’t stop baby.
Also, starting.
Also, continuing.
I’m tired, boss.
Round out the set with refraining
Yeah, as I kept showering that though came up too. We struggle with physics, we need help getting moving and then stopping again. We are a bunch of bouncy balls.
I can’t stop stopping. Help me!
Never stop never stopping.
As a kid my dad had a game called gnome, where you controlled a mech. You could spam the stop button for the robot lady voice to say stop stop stop stop stop stopping.
Equally true of every animal? Ever try to get a mole to stop digging?
Yeah, true. Or even worse, stopping a dog from eating something it shouldn’t?
Having seen how a ton of folks in my city drive, can confirm.
LOL
Respect goes a long way. Too many people try to “help” people stop something without respecting or understanding them. And that makes wars.
Respect and TCB.
I dunno, inner forces are extremely effective. Depression is even harder to overcome than inertia.
“stop being happy!” -depression
Mmm I would say that depression by nature is a suppressed ability to gain inertia. It makes it hard to get the dopamine response started to a point where you get the feedback loop.
And also to an extreme it comes from a place of not being able to imagine stopping the life you live so it is easier to imagine a stop of everything.
Until you realise it only takes one decision and we have stopped doing everything we wanted to stop.
