The number line

Now that's a pretty long time since I wrote my last post. The time between my previous post and now has been pretty good.

As a child I used to wonder why people are so much particular about the colour of the skin. The white skin is by majority considered to be beautiful and dark skin as ugly. "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" is a quite famous quote, but more than what your eyes see it is what your brain interpret what you see. Generally, things that catch your attention or things that make an impact on your mind is either beautiful or ugly.

In my primary school I had learnt about number line. It was little confusing for me in the very beginning as everything started from zero and went on. I wondered why there are negative numbers. By time I came to know something which goes against the positive is negative. But why would somebody want to go in negative direction (philosophically speaking). I think only negative minds negate everything that comes to their mind.

To simplify everything let us assume numbers are just numbers. They start from zero and go on and on. You have -1 and +1 to multiply with the numbers. If you multiply them with -1 they become negative and multiply with +1 they become positive. -1 and +1 are just your views, the way you interpret them. Choice is yours, a pessimist choses -1 and an optimist choses +1.

When I see with +1 everything is so beautiful, one better than other. But wait.. +1 is just a factor. How you bring that factor into your mind is an uphill task. As you see -1 seems to be a stronger factor than +1. The best method is to negate the negative. Because -1 times -1 is +1, bingo, there you get positive again. Easier said than done.