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Consequences

  • Writer: Mashnoor K.
    Mashnoor K.
  • Feb 3, 2018
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jan 21, 2019


Consequences, you were probably taught at a young age that all your actions have consequences. This is a true statement, but these are the things you are told when you have done something labeled as bad, or "not good". This gives us the connotation that the bad things you do will have consequences, this is a thought that shouldn't be there, I never see people think of consequences with anything except "bad" actions. That's why today I'm going to define consequences, talk about a type of consequence we don't normally think of, and apply a rule of science to consequences. When we think of consequences we'd normally think of punishment. You don't follow directions in class you get yelled at, you steal you get arrested, things like that. This isn't wrong, those are all consequences of said actions. However, that's not all that consequences are. Consequences are the repercussions of an action, meaning they are what happens in effect of those actions. To restate again, consequences are the things that happen after an action. They are not just punishments, they are everything that happens because of something else, not just do all of your actions have consequences, but almost every single action in the universe has a consequence. The Sun shines, the consequences is it providing you warmth, allowing plants to cycle through photosynthesis; plants then going through photosynthesis producing sugars, which in term goes to animals who consume them, then the energy will come back to you if you eat said animals. Everything has consequences not just what we as humans do. The string of consequences stated above, if you realize, isn't exactly punishments, like stated at the beginning of the last paragraph. These are good things, animals get energy, plants get energy, you get warmth. This leads us to the second point, not all consequences are bad. Again, consequences are things that happen after an action, all the things that happen after an action is not always bad. There can be good consequences, such as the Sun and warmth, if you help someone they feel happy, you feel good, these are good consequences. We, as children, are really ever told "there are consequences for your actions.", to prevent us from doing bad things. However, if we look at that expression, nowhere in the expression is anything specifically stated bad things. It just seems somewhere along the line the expression was given a negative connotation. Which, as you can probably tell if you read my writings, I question the connotation of things. Which then has the consequence of these writings. I wonder if that's a bad consequence? Sir Isaac Newton, well known for creating the three laws of gravity, and being the father of calculus. I don't know how I feel about the second one thinking about my pre-calculus class haha, but what we're going to take a look at is the third law of gravity said by this great man. Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. This is the thought that if you exert, let's say x, amount of force on an object, it will exert back x amount of force on you. This rule of science is a rule that can easily be applied to life. Like consequences, every action that is had, there will be a reaction just about as equal. These are the punishments, and these are the rewards, spoke about in this writing. I will keep this one short as I will one day write an entire writing about this, and some other rules, so that's all I'll say here, just remember if you push you'll get pushed back. That's all I have today, Hopefully the consequence of you reading this is understanding what a consequence is, realizing that not all consequences are bad, there are good consequences, and knowing that even in life, every action has an opposite and equal reaction. Thanks for reading, I apologize for this going up late, but at least it's still up, I hope you have a wonderful week, and I'll see you the next, peace. Original


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