You've pulled out the chainsaw, and gone to work on a tree in the yard that has bothered you for years. While it is 60 feet away from the house.....the tree is around a hundred-feet tall. For the most part, you believe you've taken enough precautions and angled the cut to be at the right angle to either swing sideways or opposite of the house as it falls. So in some dramatic moment....three minutes into this cutting effort, you now stop and realize that it's taking a lean that bothers you. You stop and stand back for about sixty seconds....trying to envision a corrective action. But by the end of the sixty seconds....you now reach a INEXORABLE level.
Yes, things are now unpreventable and unstoppable. That's the basic definition of inexorable.
About twenty seconds later, the tree takes a half-inch slant....toward the house. And twelve seconds later, it crashes into the living room.
You stand there admiring the last two seconds, the increasing lean, and inexorableness of the situation.
Throughout life, we are drawn to these moments of inexorableness.
The bar-fight that you probably witnessed in 1984, where some unkind words were uttered about some guy, and a reaction occurred.....with a six-member drunken group engaging in a brawl with another six-member group....was a moment of inexorableness. Once the insult was laid down, and it was countered with another insult....avoiding the brawl was physically impossible.
This could be the $300 truck that you bought last week, and upon reaching the peak of some hill and heading downward....you come to realize there's no real brakes, and the next sixty seconds will be a remarkable and inexorable experience.
We tend to live for these moments....savoring them, and recollecting our thoughts later about the peak moment of inexorableness.
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