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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ordinals of life

                Everyone wants to live his/her life with certain expectations. These expectations always come with our behavior that finds something better than whatever existing. This better is nothing but an ordinal preference of certain things over others see fig:1 let say .
Fig: 1 ; Ordinals of life
             If i take an example of any individual like famous people of different areas like art, sport, academia, business, power/politics etc. I find they follow a certain path but that path has been described by others not by them. And those personalities have found themselves passionate about something. So let us take one human for sake of discussion I consider a female gender. She compares herself a state  with state , so means she jumps from different curves and reaches to some point and if trace her all the points she make a new curve H of appreciation or just another curve C to be ignored. But the intention of following such path was nothing but becoming and person to whom whole human society can admire and follow. So every time she finds a gap a-b (intuitively or quantitatively) and tries to fill that gap to accomplish something. So she tries to be passionate about something and then she was trying to join the league of Sachin Tendulkar, A R Rehman, Steve jobs, Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, John Nash, etc.
                  But there are some people those are passionate about not following any curve and whenever they found theme selves they divert themselves. I met such personality, his name was sanjay, he was always passionate to be in the normal population {to know more about normal population click here}. Whenever he finds himself, considered special by others he brings himself into normal population. Sanjay was always appreciated for his arithmetic and followed by mathematical analysis in early childhood in school and high school. He didn’t like the appreciation and that annoyed him allot. He stops doing that, wanted that he should be considered as normal student. He passed out school and started painting. Unfortunately, again he was appreciated by the rest of the people, he left that too. Why he was doing that?? We don’t know. I made a hypothesis , probably he wanted to explore the life fullest rather exploring the life in only one dimension though he may get appreciation from the people, but that appreciation was propelling him to do that thing more n more. He was not passionate about one dimension he was passionate about exploring multidimensional and in unappreciated world. After almost living his half of life he chose to do his jobs where he used sell newspaper, and a tea shop and he was exploring life in different dimensions he does doing mathematics, solving Navier–Stokes equations, painting, observing people etc.......


P.S.-- I received some of comments that topic is not concluded appropriately.....actually my intention was to address the two different types of philosophies in life. One is a common way of living the life with ordinal preferences basis. The other one{uncommon} the reverse order ordinal preference. I just want to leave this as food for thought to the readers and do not want any judgment that one is better than other. I think there may be possibly many other view points and philosophies of living life.

           

3 comments:

Amrutha Appiyah Amarnath said...

After reading this article, there is only one question that is dominating my mind. 'aren't we here (on this earth as a human being) to find out and fulfill a/the purpose of life'?.

Sachin is probably fulfilling his. I don't think it is just because people are appreciating Sachin is playing cricket at his best.

Am unable to ignore my second question. What is Sanjay doing after all? His purpose of life is just meandering around too many things. Is that all? It is not wrong to be like that. But he is missing out on something. Isn't he? It is not the appreciation from others. It is not about the filling of accomplishment gap. It is about the one's own purpose. Probably, meandering around on multidimensional stuff was his purpose. Am sure Sachin still cannot ignore the multidimensional stuff (whatever) you are referring to.

Amritash said...

nice articulation sir, i agree that jumping from one curve to another until you find your ideal or idol in it is justified, no matter what the consequences are. Also I feel that people who are presumed to be on one curve have unseen curves on which they keep jumping. Probably with everyone out here until the ultimate singularity is achieved!!

sleepingghost said...

Yeh Sanjay poora Dabbler tha :-) Bhai Shiv ab maths mere sir ke upar se jaati hai.