The Fraction of Life.
As time grew upon me I began to think of how education and
all the experiences that I have matter to me or anyone else in this world. As
my thoughts progressed I tried to correlate the meaning of life and make an
analogy out of the concepts I’ve learnt against life. The best fitting analogy
I found yet, I present in this blog. THE FRACTION, OF LIFE.
Mathematics is a very important segment of education. The most
preliminary education in algebraic mathematics includes the study of Integers,
Whole numbers and fractions. Thus after careful thought I found a few distinct
similarities in my life and fractions.
A)
I consider the expanse of my experience,
intellect, maturity, and success to be the numerator of a fraction. I consider
it ‘MY LIFE’. Similarly, I consider problems, obstacles, debacles and failures
the denominators to my life. The first thought that popped into my mind was
that, ‘this means that in the world of integers, the measure of my success, my
life, is only a mere water drop compared to all the available possibilities out
there. (infinite integers)
B) The second thought that pops into my mind is
about the vast expanse of success of people and how they say success destroys
the life of people. I figured that I could relate this to fractions too. The
greater your number is, farther will be the effect of even a small denominator
to it. It is way easier to accept a 2 from a 4 than to accept a 500 from a
thousand, right?
SUCCESS OF LIFE(Numerator)
PROBLEMS IN LIFE(Denominator)
C)
As my analogy continued I figured fractions are
just numbers we play around with. What in the world could completely finish a
fraction. Make it a complete 0. The answer is- Only and only a numerator.
Meaning, that no matter how big a calamity is, no matter how big a denominator
is. After every division there is some part of us still left, until we
ourselves decide to multiply us by a 0. Killing our chances at becoming successful
again.
D)
Now moving ahead of the direct comparison of
success with fractions I’d like to compare life and its denominator as the
positives vs the vices of a person in life. And this will help us correlate it
with the general relationships of a person in his day to day life. Now, for any
person to make friends they have to first get to know the person they are
befriending, get to know his vices, his abilities and adjust to them before
really blooming into a friendship.This can be directly correlated to the
addition of fractions. No two fractions can be added to each other until their
denominators are equaled meaning the vices are understood and frequencies of
the mind are matched
E)
The last and the final comparison would be a
fraction with a 0 denominator. The fraction seizes to exist, meaning our life,
our success and everything that we stand for are defined by the problems we’ve
faced. And without them, our infinitely large numerator will seize to exist and
will be termed as Not Defined. So in my opinion one must stop looking to avoid
a problem but rather should try to face it and make a difference.
