Speed gauge

Speed gauge

Speed
Distance over time
What is speed without the gauge

What is the gauge that we can judge life with
Is there only one

Can we have personal
Cultural and collective

This had got me thinking
Can you really tell how far you've gone if you don't look back

There we then have then have the markers of others to see how far we've gone or sometimes how far we are moving
Like when you are running 🏃🏾
When you look to the side and see trees and people becoming a blur you know you are in movement
Because speed can't be divorced from movement
Also speed gives weight to movement

So speed can be a gauge for movement
For example the 100m sprint in the olympics
Is a very fast event all the in this case men run 🏃🏾 100m in lest than 11-10 seconds
Judged next to usain bolt they are slow but if you judge them next to most supporters in the crowd they are superhuman

This brings me to who or what do we gauge ourselves against
Because via perspective every lost can be a win
Such as the participation trophy 🏆
You could forgive any of the other athletes for thinking they are slow if they only gauge themselves against the best