Violent Snowflake Destruction

-more than the best Indie band name ever.

Have you ever watched snow fall?  True, it's about as interesting as watching ice freeze, or the Mets, ever, but with the first serious snowstorm of 2009 driving me into self-imposed apartment sequesterment (?), you've got to pass the time somehow.  What I noticed is this:  The big, fluffy snowflakes drift and dance through the airwaves like crystaline feathers.  They see

m bouyant, soft, delicate, pretty, and a whole host of other (largely feminine and attractive) adjectives.  In my mind and my recollection, they met their inevitable end with dignity, coming to rest gently on the ground where they either joined their brethren in the growing layer of innocent white, or landed like a butterfly and melted into the concrete like chocolate on my tongue.

But No!  Upon closer consideration, and in full expectation of the utopian demise described above, when large slow-falling snowflakes intersect cold wet concrete, the result is a violent, powerful, explosion.  Crystaline shards bolt away from the decapitated core, escaping the ravages of destruction for nanoseconds before succumbing to a same crude end.  I know energy must be conserved, but that means the delicate little snowflake had, hidden within its precise bonds and lattice work, a vulgar wealth of energy.  The only further analogy I can think of 

that's currently attracting widespread  media coverage is that of a cuddly Giant Panda suddenly going berserk and trying to gnaw off a man's legs.

So where's this heading?  Beautiful things can be destructive?  It's only in the eye of the beholder?  Don't get drunk and try to hug a Panda?

Well, sure, but more than that.  Things often aren't in reality as we perceive them to be, or certainly not in their entirity.  We can understand visually the difference between a 2 and a 3 dimensional object, so let's relate that to time (the 4th dimension).  If what we see and experience in our lives were a 2 dimensional object; the thing as it is at that moment, then it's additional dimension - time and the fullness of what it has, could and will become, is not available to us.  If that's too odd, just use an iceberg metaphore, it seems topically appropriate.

The point is, we make assumptions, and sure, they could be wrong.  But more than that, I'm suggesting we make most of the decisions in our lives based on these assumptions and perceptions which not only May be inaccurate, but in point of fact Must be inaccurate because we're dealing with objects, people, and concepts for which we do not have the '3rd / 4th' dimensional vision to comprehend.

A snowflake is not going to kill you, no matter how hard it hits your head.  Unless 2 weeks ago its proto-formation Cumulonimbus cloud drifted over a toxic chemical plant and it picked up a dose of acid with a similar freezing point.

Now who's being ridiculous?

Weber

::(lame) Texpatriot