I feel like I've lost something I never even had... When something you've always seen from a distance finally comes so close to you from so far away, it feels like it's in a continuous motion; it's come this far, and it will keep coming towards you, for it only has a little further to go... But as you excitedly outstretch your warm and welcoming arms, just as you can feel it at the tips of your fingers, it throws itself right back to its original position; in sight, and out of reach.
Sure physics has taught me that an object in motion will continue in that motion, in the same direction at the same speed, unless another force acts upon it ...