Universals

This weekend has been quite rigorous for me as far as Quantitative Methods go. I labored for 7 straight hours on Friday over only 6 statistics homework problems. I even had to bring out my trusty friend, my rice sock, to sooth my neck pain from the strain of constantly looking down to read and from calculating 13 hand written pages worth of mathematics. Believe it or not, I found some moral perspective amidst the madness.

Fact: Math is a universal language, understood by everyone, everywhere regardless of origin. If you think about it, pain is too. At some point in all of our lives we face some form of it. Now here's where it matters: if pain is universal, so should be understanding. Even when all we may see on the surface is a problem we can't understand, or a person who's actions we can't understand, there are underlying variables, or pains, that may be unknown or undefined. Once these variables are acknowledged, once we know what someone is dealing with in their life, it's so much easier to look past what appears to be "a problem", or their flaws, and to simply discover an understanding that leads to resolve. That being said, it's important to face every challenging action that one may bring towards us with a deep breath and an understanding that it is simply what it is. 2 + 2 = 4. IT JUST IS. The coefficients of our lives combined with the variables we may face result in the beings that we are. And that's something that's simply a universal truth.