The Second Law

I've been a little obsessed with the first law of thermodynamics since I heard it. "Matter can neither be created nor destroyed." I've just always found it a very elegant concept. When I think about it for a while, I start to picture the universe like a great big undulating mass, pulling and thinning in places, forming mountains and planets...people. All the complexity of life contained within each of those things is part of the greater complexity that is all those things. But then I peer in real close and think, It's all the same. It's like when you zoom into a picture until it becomes all pixilated. Eventually it just looks like a bunch of squares. I like it.

But recently, and this might be kind of ridiculous for a sophomore college student, I learned the second law: "Energy prefers to exist in a state of chaos." What a gorgeous sentence, and so true. I mean, it's true molecularly. But it applies to people too. There is something so beautiful and vibrant in chaos, and this is coming from a girl who likes order. I mean really likes order. But I'm not sure that chaos is the absence of order. To me it's more like a different arrangement of the same energy everything is made of. Maybe exposed, searching for purpose...like all of us. But essentially the same.