When life is getting really busy, it can seem like a wind that is trying to push us backwards. 

Imagine showing up to a project where the whole team was filled with joy, like a well-choreographed Broadway musical, where everyone dances and sings even under the direst of circumstances. 

If you have ever waited in anticipation for something, and it cannot happen soon enough, you know the meaning of the expression, “A watched pot never boils.” 

“Wearing your heart on your sleeve” is the tendency of someone to express their emotions openly. 

“The grass is always greener on the other side,” is what people usually say when someone makes a life decision that is predominantly based on perceived notions. 

Every culture has its own nursery rhymes with which they initiate their young. 

Friction is everywhere. Even though friction finds itself in just about every system we design, it is one of those concepts that is not easily understood. 

We engineers love our equations. Imagine asking an engineer a question, and they hold up a finger gesturing for you to wait quietly while they punch numbers into their calculator. 

Is it just me or has there been a lot of big words being thrown about lately? 

What captures the imagination of an engineer more than the elegant lumbering of a steam locomotive?