Interlude : Ending Up on the Bank

Once someone told me, when describing a reaction to a certain type of situation, that he or she had “ended up on the bank”.  I have no opinion on this other than deciding this is a typical reaction to one who is in the act of observation, but is not sure whether to step away, further away, or to dive in, because neither may be appropriate.

The bank is the gray area between being in it and being out of it, inside and outside, purgatorial.  It is a movement waiting to happen.  I believe in the science world it is called potential energy, as in the potential for something to happen, and the energy being there.

Now, it’s possible that the energy can be caused by one of the two foci, the inside, or the outside.  I will assume that one of the sources emits either a positive or negative energy, in that an individual is eventually (I mean, this doesn’t happen immediately — there is a certain amount of time involved, and that very well could be affected by it’s own parameters and equations!) pushed or pulled away from or toward one of these sources.

There is a counter-argument, see, that the energy is generated as a reaction to both foci.  Then, the crux of the argument is whether one side causes more or less of that energy than the other.  It could be a balance, or it could be a counterbalance.  It could be more meaning less, or less meaning more.

Either way, it is possible that this equation means something more than the intrinsic power of each of the foci, as there could be an intangible — the mind, values, predilections, or inertia of the individual that resides on said bank.  If there is a reason for being there, as in a predisposed path, and that pathway is still leading somewhere, as in a journey unfulfilled, it’s entirely possible that the individual MAY find some way (again, how this happens is due to a complex set of chemical processes that I can not begin to delve into) to override any external energy and choose a path that is exactly the opposite to what has been determined by those or he/she who is making the decisions!  But I can’t stress how difficult it is to tell these things, especially when I am not privy to all the information that is to be divulged, perhaps because — and I do mean perhaps, and quite also mean because — there was never any information to divulge to begin with (I mean, at least no information WORTH divulging).

And this knowledge, then, is a key to the greater (perhaps greatest) equation.  If I were to say it wasn’t, I would be lying, see.