Alright, I might have lied a little.

I have had such a busy week with our chapter's rush, vicious computer viruses, my job, insomnia, dying slowly of the swine flu... Okay, that last part is a self-diagnosis, but I feel pretty ill nonetheless. Attempting to stay alive and well. All-in-all, I barely have time to sleep (and when I do I can't), much less think extensively on what to blog about!

But I was sitting in my Linguistics 500 class - Phonetics - yesterday, and I didn't even need to be prompted to think about leadership. The thoughts just leaked into my head. We were talking about some Physics that will unfortunately be necessary for the class. Specifically, we were talking about waves. As she showed us her Mac-style powerpoint clips with videos of molecules jostling one another about, I was reminded of... us. Kind of. These lines of molecules were bumping other lines of molecules, creating a wave. They pushed force out into the space, and it created an effective transfer of energy, that not only continued pushing farther outward, but also bounced back toward the original line.

http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/waves/wave_basics/wave_motion.htm

If you go there, you can have fun playing with the wave half way down the page. As you see, the farther you drag the little molecules right, the more the rest of the lines are jostled...

If you haven't gotten my drift yet, I was thinking of Pay It Forward. Imagine my surprise when I thought of the movie suddenly while I was supposed to be thinking about sound waves and amplitude.

Though I claimed to be stubbornly negative in my introduction post, I am not close-minded and I do wish I could be more optimistic. I do not know how much difference I can make as one person, but it would certainly be nice if we could work together to create change. In a Utopian world, the amount of work we put in will have just as much output, and it will continue to effect everything in the immediate surrounding, similar to the waves. Just like in Pay It Forward, helping only three people quickly turns into 9 people, 27 people, 81 people, 243, 729, 2187... Our initial wave could help to change first our chapters, which will effect our separate councils, running into greek life as a whole, bumping Ohio State's campus, nudging Columbus, touching shoulders with the rest of Ohio, poking America, claiming the world... We could do a lot. I guess I'm only hoping for a little, and that's good enough for me.