That title doesn't have much attachment to this post other than this paragraph. It's a classic idiom but my favourite use of it is probably from the song "If Rap Gets Jealous" by K'naan. His use of it refers to finally being able to leave Somali during the horrific civil war to start a career in Canada. Mine just refers to feeling like I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Over the past couple months I've had some lame stuff happen but its definitely coming to a conclusion and as naive as it might be I feel like part of it has to do with making a point to never succumb to the bad parts of life and embracing every aspect of the good. I guess what I mean is that I never stopped being happy, but over the past weeks I haven't even had the choice.
The reason I clicked new post has to do with a conversation I had wednesday night. The girl I was with brought up the thought that certain moments in life will not look like we idealize mentally. Her specific example had to do with not knowing which family members will be alive to see your wedding. Who knows if you've met your best man yet, who knows if your fiance will have a "baby-bump" at the wedding, you get the idea. In math they have what is called a deterministic process. It is a process in which there is no randomness, if you know the current state you can with full accuracy determine the future state. We all secretly imagine that life is like this, we make ourselves guilty of the thought process wherein knowing our plans right now somehow gives us a guarantee that the future will be just how we like it. Oftentimes , mostly from motivational speakers, life is described as a series of choices. Stay in school or drop out, ask that girl out or keep walking, etc. The overlying philosophy that I've been trying to knit with this blog refers exactly to that. Possibility A: Go to college/drop out and end up very happy, Possibility B:Go to college/drop out and end up unhappy. I think you see the pattern but I enjoy spelling it out. There are two sides to all of those choices that lead to other choices and it can become a giant tree that shows where your life is going. I say that we should all look at the third side of the coin(*wink*) which is choosing to love your life no matter what choices are made or what happens to you. You can't count on your Uncles and Cousins all being there when you say "I do." but you can absolutely count on yourself to make the best of it whether they are or aren't. Mathematicians and Physicists rarely get to work with deterministic systems but they make due, there is absolutely no reason that someone can't do the same with life. Enjoy your friday night everyone, or like my Dad said to me everyday he dropped me off at school, "Make a great day!"
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