Thoughts On A Natural Law

I've had a thought the last few days...I know, you're impressed, aren't you? I've been thinking about the human makeup and the natural laws we all observe.

I don't know if there is an actual name for this, so I'll call it the Law of Crescendo. It's when things get bigger, better, more profound and more fascinating. If they don't, we lose interest.

Your favorite reality show has a certain pattern, but unless they do something you weren't expecting, you may not tune back in. Next year, next season, next "whatever" has to be bigger and better than last time to keep the attention of those it attracted originally. That's one reason movies that do a "part two" have to make them so outrageous. The "new" becomes the average and we want more. We simply expect life to crescendo. Even in the case of looking at history, we see things growing more and more dramatic, more and more tense, more and more of a crescendo.

Just think of your favorite music; if it never hit a crescendo, you would get bored real quick. What about computers? If they didn't get better, faster and cheaper we would be disappointed. We simply expect they will. We expect everything will.

Whenever you get involved in something, you expect it will continue to crescendo. Sometimes, as when speaking of a vice, we may hope it doesn't grow, but it always does. What about a drug habit or alcohol or gambling? It almost never stays at one level. We always desire something more along the same lines of what we're involved in. That's the funny thing about human fascination: we were created to be fascinated again and again. Call it what you will, I believe the Law of Crescendo is part of mankind.