Motion.
Motion Bending.
The ability to harness the power and dynamics of motion in performing useful tasks is arguably one of the human race’s most vital strengths that has enabled it to survive since its conception on the earth. From the first realization that they can not only cause their bodies to move but also other bodies physically separate from their own and that it is mostly desirable or even essential to do so, humans built useful contraptions to delegate the task of motion to. They built stone-headed spears and delegated them the task of decapitating the sprinting deer. They built knives for a similar task. They built wheels to ease up the effort in moving heavy objects. They built bows, catapults , trebuchets, cannons and pistols to increase the range of motion of objects; carts, cars, ships, airplanes to move objects over longer distances and on different surfaces; well pulleys, mills, water wheels, manufacturing plants to perform integrated motion tasks to build products at a scale; and more recently rockets to move beyond the confines of the planet earth. Motion has been integral to the success of the human species.
Motion is an essential feature of life.
The human being is kept alive by the coordinated motion of various materials in their respective channels throughout the human anatomy. From the human circulatory system transporting vital oxygen and nutrients to the various organs to the various cells splitting and forming to ensure growth and vitality, the internal plumbing system in humans is constantly in motion. At least when they are alive. Motion signifies life.
Motion is life.
But motion is more than life.
Motion supports life. The earth constantly spins on its axis as well as moves in its orbit around the sun. If any of these motions were to suddenly cease, the earth would possibly no longer be able to support life. At least life as we know it.
In light of how grand motion is, the ability of humans to control motion is perhaps divine. It gives them the ability to cause inanimate objects to move, create new structures, create new life, to control what defines and decides their lives, to solve problems.
To solve problems.
Problems.
Problems are what threaten the survival of humans. Humans have had to adapt to be problem solvers consistently throughout their life times that, it has become what defines their sense of purpose. A fulfilled human is one who is constantly progressing towards solving a problem or achieving a goal; Not one who has solved the problem or one who has no problem to solve. In fact, the magnitude of the sense of fulfillment is, in most times, proportional to the difficulty of the problem that the human is progressing towards finding a solution to.
The most difficult problems are ones that threaten the survival of the most number of people. As a Ghanaian, I am naturally biased towards thinking about problems my country and continent contend with and ways I can solve them. Through motion. The major problems I think about revolve around Food, Transportation and Energy. I will however only focus on the problem of food.
Food