Thursday, March 02, 2006

Mathematically speaking

There is platonic love and then there is physical attraction. I feel am in love with every person who speaks a few kind words to me, who makes me feel good. At the same time I can be attracted to very unknown strangers on the big screen.

Yet there are so many people who confuse the two. Some thing is love is just physical attraction..and then there are those who think its just platonic (hypothetically speaking :)).
I suppose when you mix the two you get a happy marraige.

Its all very simple really, you have two equations and you have two very random variables and in a linear (read sane!) world there is one and exactly one solution.

11 comments:

littlecow said...

That is the best post to come out of the stable and with enough subtility to match... ('the linear world'... 'exactly one solution'...). The cleverness was amusing! (unintended I assume) :D

ps: i wonder if i should stop commenting... i feel like this guy who gets up in the middle of a symphonic performance to shout "awesome!", everytime they hit a crescendo...

ligne said...

bala :
even the great ones need encouragement once in a while.. and i am only a mere mortal.. so go on and like randy jackson would say on american idol " i am totally digging it man.."

Casablanca said...

And I thought I was good at maths in school. You took that away from me as well :p

PS: Looks more like a simultaneous equation to me, than linear.

PPS: I think there is love, there is attraction, and there is a crush. The world is more complicated than a linear one ;)

ligne said...

was just going to say two equations and then i realized..oh darn..they have to be equations of a line to have a unique solution :) i am not taking anything you learnt away from you girl! yep..unfortunately real life is not linear...

littlecow said...

casablanca, ligne:

Women tend to make things too complicated. In a man's world, there is no linearity; there are no equations. There exists only a single variable: X

:)

no offence meant, obviously!

IdeaSmith said...

But this world isn't exactly linear, don't you think? I like the metaphor.

ligne said...
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ligne said...

ideasmith : you are right..if only it were linear...
lc : grin..now that i figured it out.

Born a Libran said...

Great stuff Ligne... I have other kinds of philosophizing- will come up with a complexity of life equation soon in my blog. I was thinking about real and imaginary parts in life... Saw your stuff and was immediately nodding in unison...

Caffeinism said...

Nice post.Infact i like all your posts.I think there is platonic love,pure lust,mixed bag of bioth,hero worship,dreamy sort of love....well its not linear.:D

ligne said...

born a libran: thanks. looking forward to your blog on this topic :)

coffee,boredom and me : thanks. a huge compliment indeed. life is just mind boggling:)