Article August 28, 2000 Issue

What if you are attracted to a co-worker?

Contributed to the Sentinel

It was a beautiful late afternoon. Golden light edged green leaves and slanted into my office. Spring had come and, as the saying goes, love was in the air. I noticed how attractive my colleague was. We'd been working long hours on a project, and right at that moment he seemed irresistible. "Fortunately," I thought, "he's not in the least interested in me because he's happily married. And anyway, he wouldn't be interested because I am definitely not in his league of attractiveness." I considered these points fortunate because I was married, too, had a baby, and these feelings were totally inappropriate. I then noticed a change in his expression.

He, too, was realizing that it was a beautiful day and love was in the air, and that I was a woman, and that we had become fond of each other while working on this project.

Tempting as all this was, too much was at stake. I turned to God for help. And just as I did, I remembered something from my high-school physics class. It was another spring day, and I'd just finished calculating the amount of gravitational attraction between earth and a distant star. I'd realized that if there was a calculable relation between any two bodies, near or far, then I had a gravitational relation with every entity in the universe.

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