The sense of discretion, when it is
bonded well with self-awareness, enhances the capabilities of
abstraction as also the variability (vary-ability... ability to
vary!)...
Recently, I met a retired teacher of
English literature, who still manages to give lectures by choice, for
a token amount as compensation... Very eager to extract the
essence of life experience of a person who dedicated to propagate the
skills of verbal communication, focusing on the dexterity of words
itself, and in doing so, this person, the teacher must have crossed
over that breaking point of mental fatigue, when the job-requirement
compels a person to cross-over the repetitive fatigue-causing,
vision-narrowing logical aspect of the mind!...I liked to ask her
something!
All I asked was a simple query, to
comprehensively cover all these aspects...
I asked “Madam, do you find yourself
being able to agree that the ability of 'abstraction' as a concept is
an indispensible component of a student who is keen to excel in study
of literature, beyond a basic level?”....
Her eyes widened visibly enough to
radiate the bewildered joy, when she could at once recognise the
implications of such a query, and yet she lost no time in bringing
the breath from the very bottom of her stomach to effectively utter
and emphatic “Yes!” ... ( the exhalation happened through that
'yes' to make it look like that full lunged exhalation of some Yoga
program!)...
I felt grateful to that dedicated
teacher... (I silently also thanked my spouse, who was the
best-friend of that teacher, and therefore the opportunity/privilege
for me to ask such twisted-query)...
....
About the variable vary-ability, there
was no such dramatized incident in the recent past...!
Like any body else, I too was sailing
in the same logical boat to cross over the ocean of problems...
And yet, I find that the mathematical
concept of that variable finds its fuzzy application right into our
mind, when we are able to 'free' ourselves of bonds of all kinds, and
become a variable to be able to fit into any kind of role that a
situation requires us to do!
(This, should suffice the elaboration
needed to have a grasp on that varying variable in us!)
yours 'X'-heeding-ly,
psn(5th April, 2013)
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