Life is not math, even though we sometimes think it is.
We see a girl coming out of a room with a boy after 2 hours of locked silence. We add two and two together and assume they are lovers, when they could very well be clearing off a misunderstanding without wanting to be disturbed.
We watch TV, do our homework, cook, IM, and talk on the phone at the same time. We divide our attention between all these tasks and fail to do justice to any of them.
We hear rumors about what someone had to say about us, how so and so really hates us, how tom, dick, and harry tried to dupe us, and we instantly subtract them from our lives.
And then, we are always multiplying. You lie to your friend about how you need to study for an exam when they invite you for dinner, and then later you have to lie to them about why you ended up watching TV instead of studying, and yet again, lie about how the TV program concerned your assignment. The lies continue to multiply.
And then comes the worst part (but the easiest); rounding off!! In other words, generalizations.
- If a girl on the road is driving bad, all women drivers are bitches and poor at driving.
- If a black guy is caught breaking into someone's home, all black men are dangerous and criminals.
- If one rich boy is arrogant and vain, all rich boys think no end of themselves.
- If one bengali, gujarati, chinese, mexican, punjabi is smelly, stingy, a poor english speaker, lazy, all of them are the same.
- If one beautiful girl fails her examinations, all beautiful girls come with "no brains".
- If one man who walks with a pronounced gait and has dramatic hand movements is a gay, all men who do that are homosexual.
I hate MATH. Do you?
