Daily blog (audio): It's the "force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other" [Less boring than it sounds]

<p>It's the "force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other" [Less boring than it sounds]</p> <p><br> <br> We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>I would ask if you knew what the definition of ‘friction’ is.</p> <p>But I know I’ve given it you in the title.</p> <p>“the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other”</p> <p>Even if you wouldn’t have said it quite like that, I’m sure you’d have said something similar.</p> <p>We’re all aware of friction operating in our everyday life.</p> <p>Our shoes against the floor.</p> <p>Our bare arm against a rough wall.</p> <p>Car tyres against tarmac.</p> <p>And so on.</p> <p>But there’s probably a bigger source of friction in our lives that we’re not aware of.</p> <p>That caused by these two things rubbing up against each other;</p> <p>1- How we feel things should be…….</p> <p>And…….</p> <p>2 – Reality!</p> <p>The energy we waste by comparing the world we see and the blueprint we have in our head of what it should look like.</p> <p>Our bodies.</p> <p>Our life in general.</p> <p>What other people do, think and say.</p> <p>Sometimes we can change these things.</p> <p>Sometimes we can’t.</p> <p>There’s a phrase I like.</p> <p>Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change……..</p> <p>The courage to change what I can………</p> <p>And the wisdom to know the difference.</p> <p>Accepting the things we can’t (or are unwilling to) change is liberating.</p> <p>It’s not a lowering of standards as we might be telling ourselves it is.</p> <p>A raising, if any.</p> <p>All that wasted energy from that ‘friction’ can be directed elsewhere.</p> <p>We change more of the things we can.</p> <p>By accepting those that we can’t.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Much love,</p> <p>Jon ‘May the Force be with you’ Hall