Collected Thoughts

A cathartic place for my thoughts.

Superpositus Extrema

In Mathematics, the two discrete maximum and minimum values of any function may be collectively referred to as the "Extrema." 

But I think that concept can be extended to represent my human condition because any experience, or collective range of experiences, may be assigned a number of characteristics which describe it. 

I find myself existing at both ends of that spectra simultaneously. 

That't to say that for any situation, there exists a counter condition - a sort of anti-situation which represents its inverse. The opposite of an inter-personal argument is probably a love poem, and the anti-situation of a death metal concert is most likely a Japanese Tea Garden. I often see these conditions as Extrema, in which people normally gravitate to either the maxima or minima, according to their persona. My personal case seems to flip in binary form, between extremes happily, where my net average tends toward 0.5. I'll eat vegan anti-meat one night, and the next get a five-piece "economy special" consisting of five fried chicken thighs from Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles on Pico and La Brea. I'll probably listen to Lamb of God and Dido on the way there. 

The discretization of the human condition would require more voxels than I could count; it certainly lies along a continuum. I just think that I might spend more time at either end than most. I'll work a 17 hour day then sleep until 2:00pm. I'll watch power-tool teardown videos on the internet, then bake cookies with Andes mints on them that I probably found on pinterest.  I have a favorite metal, it's Titanium. I think it's my favorite because it's strong and light, simultaneously. 

I'm a superposition of extrema.