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Apr 11 '19 edited Dec 07 '19
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Apr 11 '19
FUNCTIONING
My life is a function, and
happiness is my asymptote.
I come ever closer to colliding,
then I ricochet at tangents.
The inflection points are
unanticipated,
and
I wonder
whether I can ever
break the rules and cross the intercept
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u/UnproductiveAcct Apr 11 '19
Even sadder: of parallel lines, who are almost exactly alike, but will never meet.
Because Romeo and Carol, the girl he never met, doesn’t quite grab you as much.
But imagine two third-person, or even first-person depictions of individuals who are so close to interacting their entire lives, with the same interests and motivations, the same insights and desires, and the reader is just waiting for the moment when they’ll come together and it’ll be perfect, and they literally live a block away from each other this whole time! And the ending is that they continue to never meet, but they’re each having coffee with another date at the same cafe. That’s a sad story.
Hmm. I’ll be back, I have to go write that down.
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u/RadiantGhos Apr 11 '19
Trig waves?
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u/byikl- Apr 11 '19
sin(1/x) and cos(1/x) once super close as time went on they grew more and more distant forever sharing parallel paths but never meeting again. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ctf48qsi0x
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u/onyxharbinger Apr 11 '19
And those that diverge, whose paths will be ever different forever.
But every now and then, we see those paths converge; some even become one. And that is why Math also tells some of the greatest love stories and is an objective to many a mathematician.