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.”
“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.
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.