Tuesday, January 26, 2010

World Record: Forward Momentum

Momentum is life. If you are moving you have direction, energy and are exerting effort for a purpose. The purpose may be noble or ignoble but the fact that you are moving shows intent to live. To that end, I had a weird idea for a new Guinness Book of World Record. The longest time spent on moving forward in whatever conveyance you can achieve. Not going backwards, ever, for as long as you can. One would think that the person themselves would have to always be moving, but not so, you can sleep on a train a car or a plane, but you can't go backwards and the first sense that you might, you have to start moving forward. You would almost have to get off the plane as it was moving and enter thru the back door and exit the front so you don't go backwards. This would not be a race and the winner would be someone who can think 3, 4 or 20 steps ahead to be able to plan a series of events wherein you do not go backwards. Drop something? Too bad, keep moving. Forget an item, you can't go back. I'll admit, it might be a hard record to verify, but wouldn't it be an interesting one to have? Being the person with the most continuous forward momentum. I wish I had that ability and didn't spend so much time looking back.

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