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mk  ·  4711 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Now that books mean nothing.
I'm baking a theory...

Consider your life as a curving line. For most of us, it normally curves slowly in one direction or another. However, every once in a while, the line changes direction quickly. Yet, for some people, it changes quickly often.

My theory is that we can grow accustomed to the rate of change of the tangent of this line, and not to the actual direction, or the rate of change of the direction.

I guess that means I am talking about the derivative of the tangent of life's curve? sec^2(life)?

Anyway, let's call it B. when B is small, we are stable, and at peace. However, when B is large, we are out of sorts and we need to adjust.

Maybe I was feverish too much lately...

But when some things feel impossible or unattainable, and that didn't previously feel that way, and your situation has also dramatically changed, -I think you are ok.





b_b  ·  4711 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ah, if we're keeping with the physics metaphor, then the second derivative of one's life trajectory would be one's acceleration through life. It seems you are correct that rapid acceleration--or, as in the case of the author, life coming to a screeching halt--of one's life can create an enormous amount of stress. By the same token, it can be a great motivator to success. I think having a mastectomy, especially at age 31, would probably leave any woman horribly depressed.
mk  ·  4711 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes. But maybe it would be more correct to call it the accelerations within one's life?

At any rate, this was tough to read. Sometimes things happen where you can fully understand what happened, and yet cannot fully understand what happened to you because of it. I think she is waiting to find out, and I can see having a hard time following someone else's narrative in the meantime.