Unlike words, numbers are not synthetic.
They are natural, that's why we use numbers for everything, each day that goes by is a number in a calendar somewhere, we even identify ourselves with numbers.
They are natural, that's why we use numbers for everything, each day that goes by is a number in a calendar somewhere, we even identify ourselves with numbers.
Yesterday at the first of my coffee breaks, I passed for some power poles as I always do, but for some reason I found the numbering in those poles interesting.
My heart told me that I liked those numbers so I took some pictures of them. I don't know why but it wasn't only the design. It made me think of this post. I knew I had to write something about numbers, not these numbers, just numbers.
But what would it be? That is something I didn't know at the time, but now I know. I was never too friendly with words, I don't really like them, words can be deceiving but not numbers, they have one meaning. They only mean what they mean. Numbers are true, they don't lie... I think that's the reason I like numbers. Sometime I wish some people were numbers. sometimes I wish to be a number myself...
The numbers are your's and mine and everyone's and no one's, they are just that. Numbers. Everyone can use them, no one has to. Most people do. I like them. Not everyone does.
Still it took me 2 days to figure out what these numbers mean, and I’m still not sure, but it is funny how numbers and words combine, the harsh and direct meaning of numbers with the ambiguous significance of words... now I realize, like everything in this world, one cannot live without the other...
Still it took me 2 days to figure out what these numbers mean, and I’m still not sure, but it is funny how numbers and words combine, the harsh and direct meaning of numbers with the ambiguous significance of words... now I realize, like everything in this world, one cannot live without the other...
6 comments:
everything has an opposite - like speech and silence...
good and evil, light and darkness.
sometimes is hard to know which side we are on...
I like words for the reasons you don't like them.
Playing with their meanings, is what one of my favourite things.
It doesn't mean that I have the power to use them. Is just that I love to be surprised, challenged and/or delighted by them...
You love numbers. I love words.
I don't hate them either. Sometimes, when i'm inspired i like to play with them too.
If you like to be surprised by them so much, maybe you should look at them more carefully :P
and sometimes we "play" too much... with words, feelings and even other’s!!!!... I know what you like and dislike... or don’t!...
it's true.
We do sometimes in fact play with feelings and others.
But most times we do it unwillingly...
Sometimes it's hard to even know what to do...
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