Infinity, a word that can be interpreted in as many ways as there are interpretors and still all of those interpretations would be right. What i mean here is not the dictionary meaning of infinity, its the subjective meaning which makes this word so versatile that it has been used in very varied contexts.
My first encounter with infinity was when i as a kid asked a very genuine question about how big the sky is. What i received as an answer was, as big as your mind can comprehend - infinite, yes it was. Next encounter didnt come for many yaers and was a gradual realization; when i had grown sufficiently young and always wondered about the extent of unintentional love of my parents. Wat i realised was, it was as much as nothing can ever match. Infinity again.
And as time passed by, encounters with this mystery word kept on increasing. Be it in mathematics (1/0 or tan90) or psychology (even someones stupidity can be defined as infinite) or the time which seemed never to pass in embarassing situations. And Ah, not to mention the waiting time while i used to wait for my first (and only) love. Everything was now compared to infinity. The lines get blurred when the word has been used so many times that one looses the very ability to distinguish between its actual and implied meaning. Whatever, but here was a word that came as a rescue whenever my mind wasnt able to conjure anything up from the thin air (which again is infinite).
I wish i would some day understand the actual meaning of infinity. Why does some things have no boundaries, or is it that, its our inability to measure something and to cover that inability we give it a name of infinity. The later explanation makes more sense, considering the fact that the human mind has not been able to foray into many areas given its limitations.
One might wonder what does the diagram of Golden Ratio has to do with this topic. One is, that it was talked very much in conjunction with infinity then and other being that diagram just somewhere gives a feeling of endlessness - an endlessness of ones quest for knowledge, an endlessness for life's surprises and an endlessness for endlessness.
Infinity it is and infinite it will be!!!
My first encounter with infinity was when i as a kid asked a very genuine question about how big the sky is. What i received as an answer was, as big as your mind can comprehend - infinite, yes it was. Next encounter didnt come for many yaers and was a gradual realization; when i had grown sufficiently young and always wondered about the extent of unintentional love of my parents. Wat i realised was, it was as much as nothing can ever match. Infinity again.
And as time passed by, encounters with this mystery word kept on increasing. Be it in mathematics (1/0 or tan90) or psychology (even someones stupidity can be defined as infinite) or the time which seemed never to pass in embarassing situations. And Ah, not to mention the waiting time while i used to wait for my first (and only) love. Everything was now compared to infinity. The lines get blurred when the word has been used so many times that one looses the very ability to distinguish between its actual and implied meaning. Whatever, but here was a word that came as a rescue whenever my mind wasnt able to conjure anything up from the thin air (which again is infinite).
I wish i would some day understand the actual meaning of infinity. Why does some things have no boundaries, or is it that, its our inability to measure something and to cover that inability we give it a name of infinity. The later explanation makes more sense, considering the fact that the human mind has not been able to foray into many areas given its limitations.
One might wonder what does the diagram of Golden Ratio has to do with this topic. One is, that it was talked very much in conjunction with infinity then and other being that diagram just somewhere gives a feeling of endlessness - an endlessness of ones quest for knowledge, an endlessness for life's surprises and an endlessness for endlessness.
Infinity it is and infinite it will be!!!
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