My Maths is Grey...

This blog goes out to my good friend turned colleague turned better friend - Odysseus a.k.a ChotuFundoo! (Though I wonder why and from where he finds himself 'Chotu' :p)

The story sets back at Le Meridian, Abu Dhabi (did I mention any good things about my Big O? Paying such extravagant bills is one of them) when we started on our as usual discussions about the section of the world we live in. And with the 'rich' oxidizing agents around, the discussions soon found themselves blazing in philosophical flames and that’s when I found the dramatic title for this blog.

When it comes to Maths, perhaps Ody and I are separated by few light years. While he still teaches the bizarre theorems and formulas to engineering students, I have to use a calculator to pay my Sodexhos. And on that evening he obviously couldn’t hear me offending the subject with my theory of perception, which unlike his math’s 0 or 1, realizes everything in shades of Grey.

A part of the human magnificence is the ability to judge: to examine, evaluate and conclude, and we have come a long way deciphering nature’s code in identifying the good from the bad and the ugly. But the spirit of our judgment has always been a good follower and seldom questions the socially adopted norms, rather trends in the world around us. Thus the events in our life are more defined and coded than perceived, and are conceived more as per classical maths’s one rights or zero wrongs. But never do we realize that the need of ‘pi’ came only after a man’s observation and admission of wheel to ease his life, and then the ‘pi’ contributed by making the wheels uniform and making the ride smoother.

Living on theorems is good, but then I feel more important is to use your insight first before applying the said formulas on life. Learn to examine with the senses, evaluate in the head and conclude from the heart, and then apply the math to make it work better.

Life’s not eternal, better feel it than calculate.