REVOLUTION of the FAAAAANNNN

It just keeps spinning

Round and round

Again and again

With no signs of stopping any time soon

The Fan

The ceiling fan, we are dependent on this simple 3 winged flying object - 3WFO (patent pending)

I tried counting how long this beautiful piece of modern machinery takes to complete one revolution, and after long ages of contemplation (10 seconds if I’m being honest) I realized I was looking at it the wrong way. I was trying to look at it from the down bottom where I should have started looking at it from the side.

The fan is actually stationary, it stays fixed at a spot, it holds its ground or ceiling actually, the wings, the metal petals are the ones making revolutions.

The center stays fixed, and all it does it rotate, with 3 pairs of wings attached to it

And that’s what actually lets them make revolutions

Whether it’s at 1 speed or 2 speed or 3 speed, whether it is monday or wednesday or sunday, whether it is summer or monsoon or winter. The fan stays fixed, while time changes, after all time is relative, like a relation it keeps on changing, it doesn’t stay fixed.

Homeostasis is a glorified concept of laziness and an excuse for the fear we harbor.

We all would like to stay fixed, we drop our anchor and hope nothing changes because the fear of bad times waiting ahead always sinks in, nothing stays afloat forever. Though when the coals are shoved in it's only a matter of time before the turbine starts spinning; onward and ahead.

The ceiling fan has been around since forever (17th Century India), powered by manual labour, pulling and releasing on a string attached to a wing like fan (punkah) fixed on the ceiling much like the times we live in today where for a fan to work we require the strenuous effort of getting up and pushing the plastic switch and setting the fan speed by rotating the regulator it comes with.

If we look at the ceiling fans of the past and actually take out time to research on it, we would find that the first article that has appeared on top of the google search is actually one that requires a subscription, but if move on to the third one we will see that,

In 1886 John Hunter and his son, James (of New York) made use of hydraulics to come up with one of the greatest inventions the modern world needed. A water powered, belt-driven ceiling fan with whirling blades.

In the 1890s the fans were further modified and used but not in the households, they were used in the factories and hotels to cool products, employees and customers.

In the 1920s they made their home debut in houses with tall ceilings (safety regulations), they were mass-produced in this age and finally had the variable speed functions

Unfortunately or not, the Air conditioner made its way to the world which slowed down the ceiling fans speed.

Which did pick up by the 1980s and to now where we have the exact same designs and models being followed (except in the visual aesthetic department).

The fan made an entire revolution, with the world changing continuously, with no signs of stopping, surely it got hindered a bit in between but it still kept spinning.

A relentless piece of modern marvel which won’t budge as we delve deeper into a warm and fuzzy global warming.

To all the viewers, despite how it may seem the fan is fixed always at the same spot, and the metal petals not moving anywhere out of their fixed path, it changes, 3WFO (Patent still pending) changes with each and every second that passes.

So don't stop, make the revolution.