Power: The Rate At Which Work Is Performed!

power is the rate at which work is performed.
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Power is the rate at which work is performed.
REPEAT
Power is the rate at which work is performed.

It's funny what you tend to remember from your life. After all my struggle in my 10th Grade Public Examinations, all that I can remember word for word is this seemingly innocuous statement. Little did I know its true meaning and connotation in our world and in our times!

All through history, man is known to be a social animal. He is called so because he needs others for his survival, sustenance and relevance in this world. Survival and sustenance relate to the bodily and physical needs of man, which can be (it may be hard to believe but it is true!) satiated. But it is this sense of relevance which makes things ugly for humanity and the world that is left in its care. This is a need of the mind and unfortunately, its control mechanism is something men and women are not born with but built like skill with time and experience and choice! And so came into existence Power: The rate at which work is performed.

In the field of physics, Work is Energy put into use. So anything that has Energy has the potential to carry out work. In that context, power also becomes the rate at which energy is put to use...

If you have a problem with what Shah Rukh Khan says, go ahead and stage a protest in front of his house, get violent and threaten his family, abuse him with the choicest expletives and tell him to get the hell out of India because he is a traitor! Who cares if he lives in a free nation that gives him the right to free speech and express his feelings in a decent manner. You can and will bully him. That's Power, right?

You have a problem with migrants coming to your city, which you look at like a Goose laying Golden Eggs rather than your Home and taking away the jobs which you thought were yours by birthright and which no one else, is ready to perform better than you, has the right to claim as his own. You can beat him to death and chase him out of your 'territory' which is part of his nation. That's Power, right?

You have a problem with progress and change the world over, which you need to stop so that your dominion of fear and terror can rule over the masses, and you want to disintegrate every evolved civilization and culture to bits! You go right ahead and declare a filthy 'Holy War' on them just like a jackal kills a sheep by disguising itself in the skin & wool of its previous kill! That's power, right?

You have a problem of fear, which is understandable yet beyond its limits, with your prejudice towards Muslims and so-called 'Third World Citizens' and you wish to end this fear. So you decide to massacre the religion and race, culture and civilization with your discrimination and injustice and torture in the name of security checks and measures. That's Power, right?

Power is the rate at which energy is transferred and true enough all these actions do give the initiators a sense of power and control over their subjects. But they are like the jolts of electricity that Lightening possesses: Powerful and awesome yet Useless and Self-Centred. Real Power may seem powerless and ordinary but in reality, it is Fruitful and Benevolent, Inspiring and Transformational...

True Power is what will light your world forever. It takes true power to embrace others' views and accept them not despite their differences but for them!

True Power is what will inspire a generation. It takes true power to accept one's shortcomings and work towards building a better tomorrow not just for One but for Everyone!

True Power is what will lead you to progress. It takes true power to give up the wrong ways and pledge to work for all of humanity in the way God wants us to: with Peace and Love!

True Power is what will quell your fears. It takes true power to live with courage and stand for justice for all when your fear is at its worst!

Power...the rate at which you enlighten, inspire, lead to progress and quell fears: with justice, peace, hard work, acceptance and love! As I said, it's funny what you tend to remember from your life and it's even funnier how you find its true meaning with time and experience and choice!