Newton's Fourth Law of Optimism

Newton’s Fourth Law of Optimism

Kalane Abbey

Word Count: 378

Imagine a life without hardships and no obstacles. If you haven’t envisioned heaven, try again. Such a utopia does not exist in this real mortal world. Life here on earth is characterized by plight, trouble and sometimes grave circumstances. Though these problems do exist, there is always an outcome or resolution. After all, every story needs a conflict in order to have a plot and a resolution. So here’s my story:

May 13, 2010 marked one of the worst days of my life. Coming down the straight away in the last 100 meters of the 400 meter race I was set to win, my world collapsed. I fractured the front part of my left foot and my life broke that day as well. I had to forfeit the rest of the season, causing my relay a county, regional and possible state championship. The sun rarely shined in my world on those days. Every aspect of my life suffered. I went from maintaining consecutives 4.1 gpas to barely managing a 3.5. At first I refused to do my treatment but eventually I consented. I spent the next four months of my life doing extensive rehab and came back my senior ready to redeem myself.

My senior year was the first year a relay from my school won their heat at Penn Relays in ten years. I proceeded to be the county and regional champion in both the 200 and 400 m dash. I also finished third at the state meet and eighth on the national level. I also was awarded 2011 Prince George’s County Track and Field Female MVP and was All- Met Honorable Mention.

The moral of the story is that things always get better, and there really is “light at the end of the tunnel”. As the rest of the world accepts Newton’s three laws of motion, the world should look into this new law of optimism. Newton himself stated that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” so its plausible to assume that he would also agree that for every hard day there will be better ones in reciprocity. After all, its not just mere scientific coincidence that a rainbow always appears after a heavy storm.I believe that the best is always yet to come.