Numbers

NUMBERS Ver 2.0

0 TO 9 - DID YOU EVER GIVE IT A THOUGHT - OUR LIVES ARE SO ENTWINED WITH THESE FIGURES THAT WE CANNOT HAVE ENOUGH OF THEM! WHOEVER THOUGHT UP THIS WAS SURE THAT THIS WILL REMAIN AN ADVANTAGE AS WELL AS A BURDEN TO MANKIND! 0 TO 9 CONTROL OUR LIVES AND MINDS ALIKE. FROM THE TIME WE ARE BORN, WE START OUR LIFE’S JOURNEY WITH NUMBERS AND END UP WITH MIND BOGGLING AND HUMONGOUS AMOUNTS OF NUMBERS SPINNING AROUND IN OUR MINDS. LET US START WITH THE SIMPLE DATE OF BIRTH. THIS IS FOLLOWED BY ARITHMETIC, ALGEBRA (ALPHA-NUMERIC - SO EVEN MORE BURDENSOME), GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY, CALCULUS, ET AL. AND IF THIS WERE NOT ENOUGH, WE ALSO HAVE MODERN MATHEMATICS! HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY ALSO DO NOT SPARE US - CAN YOU REMEMBER THE NUMBER OF MEMBER COUNTRIES IN UN, NATO, EU, CIS, SAARC, ASEAN AND NAFTA? AND WHEN BABUR CAME TO INDIA AND THE DATES OF REIGN OF ALL HIS SUCCESSORS DOWN TO SHER SHAH SURI? THEN, AS WE MOVE ON IN LIFE, A PASSPORT, PAN CARD AND ELECTORAL ID ARE ADDED. WE ALSO HAVE ONE OR MORE BANK ACCOUNTS AND ONE OR MORE CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS. HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT ENOUGH, WE HAVE FRIENDS/RELATIVES AND WE NEED TO REMEMBER THEIR DATES OF BIRTH THEN MARRIAGE DATES AND HOUSE NUMBERS APART FROM OUR OWN WEDDING DATE AND ANNIVERSARIES. A RATION CARD AND HOUSE NUMBER FOLLOW. THEN CHILDRENS’ DATA, AND IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER YOUR SPOUSE’S BIRTHDAY, ONLY GOD CAN SAVE YOU! WE MUST NOT FORGET TELEPHONE AND MOBILE NUMBERS. ADD TO THIS THE VARIOUS PASSWORDS, A-PINS AND I-PINS. THEN, THE ROMANS GAVE THEIR OWN VERSION OF NUMERALS, GROAN! NOW, AS IF ALL THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH, WE HAVE A DEVI WHO MOCKS US WITH HER PROLIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF NUMBERS AND A NANDAN WHO WANTS TO ADD AN UID! SO GUYS, SIT DOWN, GIVE IT SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT AND CURSE OR LOVE THE GUYS WHO GAVE US THESE NUMBERS AND THE INDIAN WHO GAVE US ZERO- THEY ARE INSEPERABLE FROM OUR LIVES!

KALI