A Warm Hug
A Warm Hug - by Michael Patrick Vitale
I was listening to Richard Feynman talk about light, because he was good at that stuff—and I like light.
It moves at 299,792,458 meters per second, relative to us. Wow. Pretty fast.
And humans, being as we are: everything is relative to us, moving through Space/Time, measuring stuff in this solar system, within this galaxy, within this Universe.
Nothing moves as fast as light, especially people, because we have mass and it takes an infinite amount of energy to move the speed of light. We can get close, but once we reach that speed limit (previously mentioned), it would take an infinite amount of energy to get us there. Your inertial mass is awfully heavy at that point, because you started off as something that has mass in the first place.
A Photon, a small package of light—it has no mass. It’s not pushing or pulling anything. It has no agenda. It’s the fundamental “to be” in being.
Now, imagine that you weren’t a person, and instead, you were a single corpuscle of light. You have a hard time staying put (because you have no mass), in fact you are always moving at 299,792,458 meters per second, whether you want to or not, because you are light!
More importantly though, you also don’t experience time. Time is irrelevant to you because you have no mass and for the most part, you are always too busy moving the fastest. For you, the past, present, and future are all happening at the same time.
What does that make light sound like to you—something that has no need for time and travels faster than anything else just to bring you something bright? Something that has no mass and no need for inertia. It can be deflected or it can be absorbed. Some science folks have even tried to slow it down, and they succeeded for a few moments.
But for the most part, we absorb light, and when we do, we become warm. Literally warm. The same way we describe the sensation of a loving embrace: a warm hug.
This photo is from Grand Turk Island. I thought it looked and felt pretty and wanted to try and capture it so I could share the good vibes and warm feelings it brought me, with you.
WHO IS MIKE VITALE?
I am a storyteller, songwriter, singer, music producer, traveling musician, Jungian dream analyst, all-around curious fellow (Spiritual, Mathematical Historical, Scientific), Taoist, and much much more, based out of Los Angeles, California. I’m constantly releasing new music, in all sorts of different genres. You can listen to me below, on Spotify: