Slipping is indeed crash’s law. I love this idea that we slide towards our failures gradually. This way it feels like we can put a stop to dangers at any point before we collapse in a heap of dis-ease and illness. Of course for this to hold true we must believe in personal responsibility and having our eyes wide open.
Ayurveda certainly believes in crash’s law – holding that there are 6 stages of disease or pathenogenesis. Going from a state of good health, through aggravation and accumulation all the way to death takes time and does not happen over-night.
In the 19th century when Emily Dickinson wrote the poem below, there was an ethic of personal responsibility far more developed than what we have today. In our fast-paced world, methinks we have fallen into the habit of believing in instant success and instant demise. This does not serve us well.
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SEASONAL TIP: Develop real, practical Resolutions periodically not just on New Year’s Day and avoid Crash’s Law.
In preparation for intention settting resolutions: 1. Keep a journal and each day enter something good that has happened. Keep a second list of something you would like to see happen. Come resolution day you will have the tools for a thoughtfully prepared, do-able list of resolutions!
POEM of the POST
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
BY EMILY DICKINSON
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation’s processes
Are organized Decays —
‘Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust —
Ruin is formal — Devil’s work
Consecutive and slow —
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping — is Crash’s law.