I like to drink water.

When choosing a beverage, 9.2/10 I’ll choose water.

It’s healthy, contains no calories, and is vital for survival.

This morning, I was going through my morning routine, filling up my water bottle with cold water and going back to my desk. But today I took particular note of my water bottle. As my water bottle sat on my desk little water droplets began forming on the outside as condensation began to take place.

This got me thinking, 1) where can I purchase a water bottle that doesn’t “sweat” or produce condensation 2) what specifically causes condensation.

To answer the first question, there are containers that decrease condensation but none that actually eliminate it, to my understanding.

Second, condensation is a fascination process. I’d never considered how/why water collects on the outside of cold beverages, beyond knowing the liquid had to be cold in order for condensation to happen. 

As we know water has 3 states, it can be liquid, gas, and solid (ice) form.

If you put a cold cup down on a table, the water vapor in the air that comes in contact with the cup gets cold and will turn into water.

The water on the outside of your glass comes from water that’s in the air.

Something that you can’t see with the naked eye, the water in the air, becomes something you can see when in the correct environment.

This highlighted an important lesson to me.

If you’re forging ahead, chasing new ideas and actively expanding your horizons you might ask yourself “is anyone watching?” Not in the admiration or audience sense, but more so, “is anyone watching because they’re going through the same thing?”

When facing a struggle and challenge it may feel like you’re alone. You wonder if there are others like you.

Know that your work will attract other like-minded people  – even if you don’t see it happening right now.  Hold fast to your cause, your vision, your dream.

What you do and who you will attract similar people.

The work you do, the signal you’re sending out right now is important. Work on becoming the person you want to be and creating the type of environment that would attract the type of people you want to be around and a community will appear or “condensate.”