Preventative Maintenance

There’s this stuff I don’t like to deal with. I’ll call it preventative maintenance (flossing teeth and changing the oil are prime examples). I’d rather spend my time nourishing upward spirals. However, these two activities are symmetrical in a complementary way. Nourishing upward spirals accelerates things upwards; preventative maintenance decelerates things moving down. Decelerating something going down is kin to accelerating something moving up. From the point of view of physics and the exertion of force, they are the same. A spiritual challenge for myself is to feel the kinship and do the preventative maintenance with the same gusto I seek upward spirals.