Life is one big numbers game — whether or not we're partial to mathematics.\u00a0 Unfortunately.\u00a0 More than a few aspects of our lives revolve around them.\u00a0 And though we try to focus on the quality of our lives, these quantities tend to intervene and make various elements of life more tangible. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The most common one, I would presume, is money.\u00a0 Whether or not this is the most important, you decide.\u00a0 However, money faces a lot of mixed reviews in the world.\u00a0 Some don't think anything of it, some long for it, some make it their priority… and some even worship it.\u00a0 We devote almost half our lives (maybe even more) trying to earn money and making those figures in our bank accounts fatter and fatter.\u00a0 In exchange for what?\u00a0 Material objects that are yet again measurable by quantity — more cars in the garage, higher carats of diamonds, a big house with more rooms than the old one, more pairs of shoes even?\u00a0 Relatedly, everything around us seems to be labeled with a price tag — rent, phone bills, damages on the credit card after a shopping spree, insurance fees, and the list goes on.\u00a0 More numbers that plague us. \u00a0<\/p>\n
We work to be able to get our numbers up, just to fulfill the requirements of these other numbers.<\/p>\n
Is it me, or does that not make any sense when it's put that way?<\/p>\n
Another big hoo-ha… age!\u00a0 We like convincing ourselves that age is just a number.\u00a0 However, in reality, it grates us all inside knowing that the number that indicates our years of existence is piling up everyday.\u00a0 If only there was a way to stop it… and yet be able to keep the wisdom and knowledge that we've swept up along the way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Even growing up, during our school days, our lives revolved around numbers.\u00a0 We worked hard to attain high grades, to get as many credits for college, to get the topmost rankings in our class — essentially to be numero uno.\u00a0 And you'd think that the number fever stops the moment you write off that last calculus exam.\u00a0 It's only bound to get worse.<\/p>\n
We, as people, get characterized as numbers as well.\u00a0 Regardless of the fact that we all have names, we are still numbers in many places.\u00a0 We are in possession of various numbers that identify us such as our social security numbers, drivers license numbers, identification card numbers, passport numbers, name it!\u00a0 Surely, we have at least half a million of numbers tied to our names.\u00a0 And these lurking chatter about getting microchips inside us with unique barcodes on them?\u00a0 I won't be surprised if governments spring that on us one of these days.\u00a0 Ethical or not, that's saved for another day.<\/p>\n
Economic indicators have also become a strong foothold in our lives.\u00a0 We even use it as excuses or motivation sometimes.\u00a0 “Times are tough and a little bit tight because the economy's down.”\u00a0 Or perhaps “Oil prices are skyrocketing, it's time to save up.”\u00a0 Economists — a special type of mathematicians, safe to say — swim in a sea of numbers everyday.\u00a0 And through these numbers, lifestyles and living standards are dictated.\u00a0 Everything is measured from poverty to per capita income to gross domestic products to inflation to trade.\u00a0 It's all these numbers that we bank on everyday… and it's through these numbers that we fashion our lives on.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, evolution and technology have made it possible that we can be profiled by using pure numbers — our age, how much we make, how many kids we have, what grade point average we achieved, how many of this and that we own, and so on.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why is everything quantified?\u00a0 Sure, to make assessments clearer and quicker.\u00a0 But tell me — how accurate is it?\u00a0 Numbers may say a lot about us, but it definitely does not tell the whole story.<\/p>\n
One set of numbers that we are definitely conscious of is time.\u00a0 We are conscious of it, yet we don't necessarily appreciate it.\u00a0 The numbers on our clocks, our watches, the corners of our computers, those on the towers of municipal halls — they all indicate time.\u00a0 We find ourselves constantly asking what time it is because usually, each hour of the day is connected to a particular activity such as eating a meal, working, sleeping or resting.\u00a0 However, we don't realize that time actually runs out.\u00a0 Unlike most of the other numbers involved in our lives, this one doesn't pile up.\u00a0 Quite the opposite, it dissipates.<\/p>\n
Maybe there is a reason why God has created people who are good in math… and people who are not.\u00a0 It's bad enough that our lives are composed of so many numbers.\u00a0 There has got to be some people who look at quality, too.\u00a0 If everything in life can be specified and quantified, then risks, mistakes and trials are all thrown out the window.\u00a0 What else is there to live for?\u00a0 Numbers allow us to concretize certain concepts… but words, allow us to live them. \u00a0<\/p>\n
After all, if not for the letters in the alphabet, what else will algebra use?<\/p>\n
I will not deny, however, that mathematics and life have something in common: that both start off simply… only to end in an utterly complicated mess!<\/p>\n
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