"Well, how did I get here?"

Today's post starts off with a bit of background information for my readers that haven't taken a calculus based stats course. In Statistics there two different types of functions, discrete functions and continuous functions. A discrete function is only defined for a given set of values, i.e. {1,2,3,4,5}.









A continuous function is the type of function that is traditionally dealt with in math past algebra I, a function defined over an interval i.e. (1<x<5).








The reason those two ideas are important has to do with how the flow of ones life is perceived. It is clear that realistically life can be either one depending on whether you look at it from the present tense or past tense. If you look back over the last five years things seem somewhat discrete because life appears as a series of big events with essentially "blank" spaces in-between much like a discrete distribution. However, if you look at say the past week everything flows very smoothly and appears discrete. The reason I bring this all up is that today for some reason felt like a discrete point to me. I have been living in an apartment for 5 months now. I am no longer a math major. I am happy for legitimate reasons rather than just because its my personal philosophy to never waste time being depressed. None of those things are individually a big deal but I still have those moments every once in a while where I ask "Well, how did I get here?"(be sure to click that link, great video). I ask this question because much like I mentioned earlier everything this semester seems very discrete.  It feels like it was just yesterday that I ate lunch for the first time with Koleen, Morgan, and Dorothy but it's actually been about 4 months. The only legitimate explanation I can think of for this phenomenon is that this is a result of me not letting a day go by where I am not enjoying my life. Much like how some people might slip into several unmemorable months due to depression I think I may have slipped into a streak of completely fluid bliss. To be clear, I am 100% ok with this.

I was contemplating saving this for another post but I've got a solid 20 minutes until my plans for the evening start so I'll throw it in real quick. Yesterday was awesome, really awesome. I got to partake in two guilty pleasures that I assumed were lost in my childhood and best of all I got to enjoy it with my bros. The two aforementioned activities were playing around at a local "crick" and enjoying the innocent pleasures of a park. It makes me very happy to have people around me that are willing to let loose and just enjoy themselves. Hope you all have a nice evening, I'm off to start mine.