I used to hold a very binary view of life and its happenings. There were lines which were almost always linear. Uncomplicated (or so i thought), simplistic and very black & white. For instance, you were either happy or sad. You either like something or you don't. When someone was elaborating an incident leading to complex emotions, I'd ask an extremely simplified binary question. The answer to my question included, not limited to (I have been proof reading MOUs, so excuse the language), rolling the eyes, exasperated sighs, sarcastic comments but mostly "its not that simple". I truly believed it was simple. I still do.
But I understand now that its not demarcated. I understand there are no lines, even and especially between conflicting emotions like happiness-sadness, love-hate, expressiveness-moodiness. This understanding occurred only when I turned the attention to my feelings and thoughts. And my greatest realization in this lifetime, so far (hoping to stumble on bigger realizations) - any single thing is not about that thing alone and at times, almost entirely, not about that thing at all.
This wasn't my original topic to post. My original idea was to whine about my field of research being not as sexy as bio or nano research (its so annoying to watch people lose interest half way through my explanation that lasts barely 5 seconds but that's for another day). As I was mentally composing my originally planned blog post, I drifted to, compared, related or metaphorically addressed a lot of other things that were in my mind. That's when I realized that none of my blogs are going to be, strictly, about just one thing and at times, almost entirely, not about that thing at all.
Hence the title 'One and Zero', the binary numbers 1 and 0. Not to mean the demarcation or differentiation of 1 and 0 but the combination of 1 and 0, and everything in between.
But I understand now that its not demarcated. I understand there are no lines, even and especially between conflicting emotions like happiness-sadness, love-hate, expressiveness-moodiness. This understanding occurred only when I turned the attention to my feelings and thoughts. And my greatest realization in this lifetime, so far (hoping to stumble on bigger realizations) - any single thing is not about that thing alone and at times, almost entirely, not about that thing at all.
This wasn't my original topic to post. My original idea was to whine about my field of research being not as sexy as bio or nano research (its so annoying to watch people lose interest half way through my explanation that lasts barely 5 seconds but that's for another day). As I was mentally composing my originally planned blog post, I drifted to, compared, related or metaphorically addressed a lot of other things that were in my mind. That's when I realized that none of my blogs are going to be, strictly, about just one thing and at times, almost entirely, not about that thing at all.
Hence the title 'One and Zero', the binary numbers 1 and 0. Not to mean the demarcation or differentiation of 1 and 0 but the combination of 1 and 0, and everything in between.
