{"id":4512,"date":"2011-07-25T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2011-07-25T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:37:13","slug":"familiarigravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/familiarigravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiarigravity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have never seen this bush before, because I had never walked that far from my new home. This probably happens every time I move, but usually I forget to write about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was taking a one-hour walk today, finally, now that my foot is fully recovered. Well, it was meant to be a one-hour walk, but due to familiarigravity, it ended up more like 50-55 minutes.<\/p>\n

What is familiarigravity? I can hear you ask. Actually, that is what I would like to know as well! I discovered it for the first time more than 30 years ago, toward the end of my high school years. (Yes, amazingly I have lived a long time already, longer may it last.) What I discovered was that when I leave the places I usually go, and walk into the unfamiliar, even if it is just along a road, I slow down and yet I tire more easily. \u00c2\u00a0Conversely, once I turn around and start walking back home, walking becomes easier and I walk faster without getting more tired. It is as if there is a center of gravity somewhere in the familiar.<\/p>\n

No, the road is not actually sloping upward. This is when I walk in flat terrain. If there is actual uphill or downhill, these add or subtract as usual. It is as if there is a second force in addition to gravity, similar to it but weaker and with a different center. This is what I today decided to call “familiarigravity”.<\/p>\n

Obviously the law of familiarigravity is a law of the mind, not of matter. But the two are certainly intertwined in us humans. And I sincerely hope they will continue to be so for quite a while yet!<\/p>\n

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