Odds
How do you explain certain events? Events which you wouldn’t have even thought of in your wildest dreams. Unexpected events which set you on this path and brought you here. Well, first you try to think logically attempting to connect the cause and result. You try but then you stumble upon an inconsistency. Something that you cannot explain unless you account for randomness in everything that there is and even when you do, all you’ve got is “That was lucky”. On the other side of the spectrum, you can leave logic aside and take it in, as if it were a movie scripted by a higher power. And that leaves you with all the creativity you own. You end up describing them in a beautiful poem for there is nothing out of your reach when you write.
Now I…
I would have loved to be on either end of spectrum. Perhaps be logical and play it cool or be poetic about it and pour my heart out showcasing how mesmerized I am at everything that was conspired by an unknown, who wrapped all of it in a beautiful surprise (you see what I did there? :P ). Unfortunately, I am incapable of the edges and tend to lie somewhere on the safe ground. Neither can I downplay the events by just calling them “lucky” being all logical, nor do I have the words to pen down the beauty. I know others who have those words. I know YOU have those words in your arsenal. Words that can beautifully bring out the imagery that you create for yourself. Sadly I don’t.
What I do have is a little bit of both worlds and now I’ll attempt to use them to literally SHOW you what imagery plays when I think of the events until now that were riding on randomness to even exist. As it turns out, EVEN ODDS (even odds.. hehe.. get it? :P) WORK IN YOUR FAVOUR WHEN YOU ARE SEARCHING WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.
From the logical side of my tools, I have the meta-heuristic algorithms that I can employ on fairly complex search domains using randomness to direct my search towards my ultimate goal (too much blah blah blah? xD). I was just trying to show-off by throwing big words. Trust me, it is not at all that complicated. I’ll also use whatever little poetic spirit I have in me. I’ll use these two to draw you a picture. A literal picture that should be worth at least a few words if not more. To put it in simple terms, when you are searching for “the one”, the ultimate goal that will make you a better person, with all your might, even randomness becomes your friend and things around you help you out to lead you there. You might not realize it by being a part of the bigger picture but ultimately, you will find yourself in awe thinking back about what brought you here. So, here is that picture (rather a play :P)…
What you are seeing here is the following:
We might have started at different places in life and had different paths as we started our quest to find “the one”. Then things happened. A lot of things! As I said earlier, events whose mere existence is dependent on randomness (blue), sculpting our paths into these ever complicated and tangled strings. Heck, sometimes our paths would have even crossed but we weren’t looking in the right place. But little did I know those paths ultimately would one day lead me to YOU. A place where I would have preferred a straight path to. But life doesn’t work that way does it? But its a place where I would definitely find myself saying
“I am here to STAY”
