What is Love Like?

I've always loved numbers, loved to look for patterns in them, loved random number generators or coin flipping or dice rolling to see if they *really* distributed randomly or not. :) Geek boy...

Later, it was fun in math classes to learn about all different kinds of numbers: rational and irrational, real and imaginary, etc., because with categories like those, *now* we start crossing over into the realm of philosophy, another favorite subject, as faithful readers of this blog already know. ;)

So, with the coming of Valentine's Day once again, I happened to be browsing through a little collection I have of sayings about love, and this one struck me:

"Love is like pi", it said, "natural, irrational, and very important." Well!, I thought. It's way more than that!

Like pi, love is:

natural,

but

irrational

never-changing,

but

non-repeating

infinite,

but

limiting

constraining,

but

scaleable

and

a fundamental constant

that helps the world hang together.



But one thing it's not.

It's not:

imaginary.

:) It's very real. :)

Happy Valentine's Day!



And oh, yeah... if you were to try to describe it fully, just like describing pi, describing love would take all the pages of all the books that all the paper in the world could make, and you would not exhaust the subject.

The Book of Pi