Good Morning,
There has been a book written about it, “The Tipping Point” by (Malcom Gladwell), a music album “Tipping Point” by The Roots, a couple of TV episodes, even a philanthropic organization uses Tipping Point as its name.
In Physics: A Tipping Point is the point at which an object is displaced from a state of stable equilibrium into a new equilibrium state qualitatively dissimilar from the first.
In Sociology: Tipping Points are “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.”
There comes a time when in the course of ones personal human events that change is inevitable and unavoidable or in other words the “Tipping Point” is reached. This is one of those times for me and once the process is started it cannot be stopped. It will be interesting to see where it all settles out and how that new level of equilibrium will be, albeit dissimilar from the previous.
There is of course, a silver lining in every cloud and I know you cannot have a rainbow without the rain. You also cannot have true freedom without independence… you cannot have independence without some form of sustenance and in this case that being currency.
Change is never easy for us humans and I am certainly one that doesn’t embrace it easily, but when someone “moves your cheese” you better start looking for it in different places or die.
When everything you can do is spoken for ten years before you see it or make it in this case, that becomes the precipice off which we must leap. So… as I feel the wind on my face much like a skydiver at terminal velocity, it will be the green valley below I see and the promise of simpler fiscal times that I will be holding onto, hopefully for the first, last and only time.
Love, Dad
Photo: Tipping Point Egg
Photo: Tipping Point String by Marie Fisher 2009
Cartoon Character: By Ira Coffin Who Moved My Frigging Cheese?
Ira Coffin is a talented cartoonist. Check him out.