I have decided that people are a lot like springs. Yes, I am aware that these two things seem unrelated but they do, in fact, have some similarities. For example springs like people, are reactive, the more you repress them the more they want to react.

Life is, in every way a compromise between two things. For example you compromise between what you want and what you need in everyday life choices. "What car do I want?" -vs- "What car do I need?" "I'd like a Ferrari but where would I put my 2.4 children?" ( don't you always feel sorry for .4?) Business is the same - "I would like to gouge every last cent out of the customers but would they come back?" Politics too, bears this burden of compromise - " we would like a completely supressed and controlled populace who would obey every law just because it is there, but would that make us unpopular?"

This is where people are like springs; If you supress a person or a group of people they will react, eventually. People are very slow to react sometimes and fear plays a big part in this. The theory works better when related to a person rather than a group. For example when you supress a child, they grow into a flamboyant and expressive adult. Take for example any famous person of the last 2000 years, If they were repressed as a child they reacted strongly in adulthood, not only in their public lives but also in their personal lives. 

I give as examples of this... Adolf Hitler, Genghis Kahn, (my idol) Howard Hughes, Alexander the (allegedly) great, Liberace, Attila the Hun, Billy Connolly, Donald Trump and Michael Jackson. All of these people have done great things, not all of them were great people but they all shared a commonality. As children they were all affected by repression/misery and in adulthood they all sprang out into flamboyant and characteristicaly powerful people.

ERGO: People are like springs.

I rest my case, peace be with you all.