significant

Physical Science 100 has disturbed my perspective of the normal world into some absurd realm. Forces push upward simply by being there and having something else push on it. For example, my unreliable rocking chair actually has the audacity to push upward on me, while I exert force by sitting on it. Otherwise, I would sink into the chair and lose all my organized particles among the floor particles, the chair particles, and my scattered miscellaneous clothing particles.
Little things come to exert force on the enormous, like mosquitos hitting a truck exert the same force as the truck does on the stupid mosquitos. Mathematically, the amount of acceleration makes up for the mosquitos’ puny size.
Walking back (again) from the sterilized BYU library one night, and feeling very puny and stupid myself, I found comfort in watching my battered brown doll shoes take long strides over the dark, icy concrete. Whatever my size, my steps pushed the earth back while the earth propelled me forward. To the silent night and the marching bulk of mountains, I was significant. That night I moved the earth, in whatever diminutive degree, and the earth moved me.