Will things be better at your lowest point?
It has been quite some time since i posted here. So i shall copy some random post i have posted on my blogger. =P
Have you heard of the quote: "Don't worry. Things will always become better at your lowest point". But in reality, how true is that?
By saying that quote, you are first assuming that it has a minimum point, something like a quadratic curve.
Yet, since when is life is so simple? If only life is just y = ax^2 + bx + c, it will be boring like hell. There wont be so much diversity in what we do and how we think. We might as well be robots. Even robots nowadays are more complex than a quadratic equation.
Oh wells, people likes to simplify things. All those idealistic conditions like ideal gases, assuming ceteris paribus, taking account no air resistance, assuming delta x = x etc. All these are not practical yet we are using all the time. So let's say we can simplify (i seriously don't know how) life to a simple quadratic equation, there are still problems. Firstly, you never know where the minimum point will be. It can be positive, where this man must be in luck. Even his lowest point is good. It can be zero, where there is a balance between reapings and sufferings. Or it can be negative, where the lowest point will be in pain.
In addition, the magnitude will vary. It can be -1, which might well be within the tolerant level of a person, or it can be -100000000000000000 which can suck the life out of any average person. Besides, don't you think that this curve totally resembles those ropes that you hang yourself with?
From the graph, you are assuming that life can infinitely be better. Is it possible? Is it possible that i become the next president of United States? Besides, who has ever said that it will be a positive quadratic curve? Why can't itbe a negative one, where there is a maximum point which is the best you can ever get?
Nah, it's stupid to think that way. Similar to the argument above, how can it be infinitely bad? Afterall, what can be worse than death? Death simply just ends everything for your life, excluding the implications you would have brought to the people around you.
If quadratic function can't explain this, what can? A cubic graph?
Lols, just when you thought that you are at your lowest point and things will be better (at the point of inflexion), it dips much further down.
Or can it be a sine curve? It seems pretty much reasonable, it has maximum and minimum points, where life is just like a seesaw. However, it's just too predictable. And are you sure our life can just be that good, or that bad?
Therefore, i think that the graph that can best show our lives, is a random graph!
There are both maximum and minimum points of varying magnitudes. You will never know which part of it you are now. Things seem bad? Dont worry, it may already be at its lowest point. Things seems good? It probably can be even better! How apt this is?
So referring back to the initial quote "Don't worry. Things will always become better at your lowest point" seems to still hold. Just that you don't know whether you have reached your lowest point or not. Life can become better, or it can be the other way round. That's the wonder of life.
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Phew.. finished this post. Don't worry, i'm still alive and sane. =P
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Have you heard of the quote: "Don't worry. Things will always become better at your lowest point". But in reality, how true is that?
By saying that quote, you are first assuming that it has a minimum point, something like a quadratic curve.
Yet, since when is life is so simple? If only life is just y = ax^2 + bx + c, it will be boring like hell. There wont be so much diversity in what we do and how we think. We might as well be robots. Even robots nowadays are more complex than a quadratic equation.
Oh wells, people likes to simplify things. All those idealistic conditions like ideal gases, assuming ceteris paribus, taking account no air resistance, assuming delta x = x etc. All these are not practical yet we are using all the time. So let's say we can simplify (i seriously don't know how) life to a simple quadratic equation, there are still problems. Firstly, you never know where the minimum point will be. It can be positive, where this man must be in luck. Even his lowest point is good. It can be zero, where there is a balance between reapings and sufferings. Or it can be negative, where the lowest point will be in pain.
In addition, the magnitude will vary. It can be -1, which might well be within the tolerant level of a person, or it can be -100000000000000000 which can suck the life out of any average person. Besides, don't you think that this curve totally resembles those ropes that you hang yourself with?
From the graph, you are assuming that life can infinitely be better. Is it possible? Is it possible that i become the next president of United States? Besides, who has ever said that it will be a positive quadratic curve? Why can't itbe a negative one, where there is a maximum point which is the best you can ever get?
Nah, it's stupid to think that way. Similar to the argument above, how can it be infinitely bad? Afterall, what can be worse than death? Death simply just ends everything for your life, excluding the implications you would have brought to the people around you.
If quadratic function can't explain this, what can? A cubic graph?
Lols, just when you thought that you are at your lowest point and things will be better (at the point of inflexion), it dips much further down.
Or can it be a sine curve? It seems pretty much reasonable, it has maximum and minimum points, where life is just like a seesaw. However, it's just too predictable. And are you sure our life can just be that good, or that bad?
Therefore, i think that the graph that can best show our lives, is a random graph!
There are both maximum and minimum points of varying magnitudes. You will never know which part of it you are now. Things seem bad? Dont worry, it may already be at its lowest point. Things seems good? It probably can be even better! How apt this is?
So referring back to the initial quote "Don't worry. Things will always become better at your lowest point" seems to still hold. Just that you don't know whether you have reached your lowest point or not. Life can become better, or it can be the other way round. That's the wonder of life.
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Phew.. finished this post. Don't worry, i'm still alive and sane. =P
P.S. Please leave a tag ;)!