article: My Favorite Number
Sometimes people used to ask me "what's your favorite one digit number?". And sometimes it was during quizzes or questionares on the internet and forwarded mails that I have to answer this. And I never had my favorite or my lucky number. And randomly I used to say any number, just any number until I got a feeling that I should not be treating my favorite or lucky numbers like this. They deserve more. Well, I guess its difficult to know about lucky number. I decided to find out my favorite number. At an instance only a list of number came in front of my eyes and within few seconds I accepted and rejected few of them.
2,4 and 5 very simply rejected. They look so normal. 1,3 and 7 very selected. They look like favorite numbers or they carry a charisma and an elegance which favorite numbers supposed to carry. And now I am wondering why 6,8,9 and 0 striked my mind?
I started getting a feeling as if something is not complete, something is missing. My favorite number is a major issue for me and I thought of giving each number a full chance to be my favorite number. I wanted to analyze each number. So, here I go-
'1' number has great charisma and elegance. More than that it is 'one'. Yes. Only one. It could be my favorite number. And it is number one, the first one. It seemed to me as if I am racing for something, as if I have a desire to do things better than anyone else that too in the shortest possible time, as if I have a desire to do my best and come out first, as if this life is a race and everybody is running on the same track for the first position. Naa. This is not me. For me, everybody has its own track to run or walk or crawl or just sit there forever or may be lie down without any fear and tension.
'2' number looks so number 2. Again it reminds me of race with not so good results. And then the thought why would anyone choose this number to be favorite number? Suddenly, '2' number reminded me of couple, it reminded me of union. It is the company; company of two which is always the best because when two people communicate, its their heart which communicates; when two people communicate, it's a spiritual communion, and when two people are together, they are the best. Then I felt the best moments I spent with my loved one- my friends, my family members which touched my heart. The best conversations or sometimes no conversations I ever had with them one-to-one enriched me with the feeling that how nice life has been to me. More than my feelings there is more in number '2' which I feel is one of the most beautiful and wonderful phenomenon in this universe, it's not only the life of the two but also the possibility of creating a new life from them.
'3' number has a charm. Its looks OK. Reminded me of DCH. Well, it's the smallest number of points with which you can draw a closed figure and which is called a triangle. Anyone who loves geometry, loves triangles the most.
'4' number still looks a normal number to me. Well, it's an even number; more even than any other number if you can see numbers in 2D. Its so simple, so plane and that where its beauty lies. Probably we are too old to see the simplicity and beauty of its looks. A 4 year old child can feel and may be explain it better.
'5' number look normal but now I am feeling that it has all the capability of being my favorite number and I don't know why? May be because it does not look that normal, may be because it is unique in its own way, may be because there is something unnatural and powerful image with it. I have started liking it a lot.
'6' number, definitely no. Bilkul bhi nahin. All thanks to hindi slangs. Very strongly I feel that hindi language has not treated this number well. It has taken away all the glory from number '6' which it could have. It looks like a kingdom which could and should have been glorified but wasn't because historians were not a mood to do so. Somehow , they thought that they should be funny sometimes. And now, whole world looks at that kingdom with the sight they gave. What a pity?
'7' number is no doubt the most elegant, most charismatic and most powerful number. Why? Lets find out. Almost every culture, every civilization has treated this number like a king, and so do we. May be because it is so prominent in the world we see and may be more than that it has been recognized by everybody to be prominent. Let it be 7 colors of a rainbow or 7 surs of music, 7 stars in constellation Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Through out the ages we are talking about it. And then this number got what it deserved or may be more than that – "7 wonders of the world". Knowingly or unknowingly, we accepted this number as the best. And best thing we did to it was to accept it as 'the default favorite number'. Number '7' is like Sharukh Khan in Bollywood, Jesus in Bible, Krishna in Bhagwad Gita, Vishnu in Vishnu Puraan, Brahma in Brahma Puraan and Shiva in Shiva Puraan. "Gloryfied"
'8' number quite a unique number. more even than number '4', if you can see numbers is 3D.
'9' number gives a beautiful ending to these numbers and that's how great in its own way. It completes. It could have been Rubik's (great philosopher and mathematician who invented Rubik's cube) favorite number. He might have loved it more than any one else. And how can we forget people who created Sudoko? It could have been their favorite and most respected number.
'0' number should be given utmost respect for saving mankind from inventing a million numbers for representing a million. Without '0' this world would have been a different world, very complex and very tiring. There is more, beacause of zero only boolean came into existance and then boolean algebra and then computers. Suddenly, I was imagining myself writing on the slate instead of MS Word. I am speechless.
After reading above article again and again, I decided..
And the award goes to……………..
9 is on position 3.
0 is on position 2
2 is on position 1.
So, from now onwards, 2 is my favorite number.
Its funny to see that all of the numbers from 0 to 9 were fighting for being number 1. And so for one instance, thought of number '1' being my favorite number came in my mind.
But, I would like to go for the feeling and which says number '2'.
Surely, it is a beautiful number
2,4 and 5 very simply rejected. They look so normal. 1,3 and 7 very selected. They look like favorite numbers or they carry a charisma and an elegance which favorite numbers supposed to carry. And now I am wondering why 6,8,9 and 0 striked my mind?
I started getting a feeling as if something is not complete, something is missing. My favorite number is a major issue for me and I thought of giving each number a full chance to be my favorite number. I wanted to analyze each number. So, here I go-
'1' number has great charisma and elegance. More than that it is 'one'. Yes. Only one. It could be my favorite number. And it is number one, the first one. It seemed to me as if I am racing for something, as if I have a desire to do things better than anyone else that too in the shortest possible time, as if I have a desire to do my best and come out first, as if this life is a race and everybody is running on the same track for the first position. Naa. This is not me. For me, everybody has its own track to run or walk or crawl or just sit there forever or may be lie down without any fear and tension.
'2' number looks so number 2. Again it reminds me of race with not so good results. And then the thought why would anyone choose this number to be favorite number? Suddenly, '2' number reminded me of couple, it reminded me of union. It is the company; company of two which is always the best because when two people communicate, its their heart which communicates; when two people communicate, it's a spiritual communion, and when two people are together, they are the best. Then I felt the best moments I spent with my loved one- my friends, my family members which touched my heart. The best conversations or sometimes no conversations I ever had with them one-to-one enriched me with the feeling that how nice life has been to me. More than my feelings there is more in number '2' which I feel is one of the most beautiful and wonderful phenomenon in this universe, it's not only the life of the two but also the possibility of creating a new life from them.
'3' number has a charm. Its looks OK. Reminded me of DCH. Well, it's the smallest number of points with which you can draw a closed figure and which is called a triangle. Anyone who loves geometry, loves triangles the most.
'4' number still looks a normal number to me. Well, it's an even number; more even than any other number if you can see numbers in 2D. Its so simple, so plane and that where its beauty lies. Probably we are too old to see the simplicity and beauty of its looks. A 4 year old child can feel and may be explain it better.
'5' number look normal but now I am feeling that it has all the capability of being my favorite number and I don't know why? May be because it does not look that normal, may be because it is unique in its own way, may be because there is something unnatural and powerful image with it. I have started liking it a lot.
'6' number, definitely no. Bilkul bhi nahin. All thanks to hindi slangs. Very strongly I feel that hindi language has not treated this number well. It has taken away all the glory from number '6' which it could have. It looks like a kingdom which could and should have been glorified but wasn't because historians were not a mood to do so. Somehow , they thought that they should be funny sometimes. And now, whole world looks at that kingdom with the sight they gave. What a pity?
'7' number is no doubt the most elegant, most charismatic and most powerful number. Why? Lets find out. Almost every culture, every civilization has treated this number like a king, and so do we. May be because it is so prominent in the world we see and may be more than that it has been recognized by everybody to be prominent. Let it be 7 colors of a rainbow or 7 surs of music, 7 stars in constellation Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Through out the ages we are talking about it. And then this number got what it deserved or may be more than that – "7 wonders of the world". Knowingly or unknowingly, we accepted this number as the best. And best thing we did to it was to accept it as 'the default favorite number'. Number '7' is like Sharukh Khan in Bollywood, Jesus in Bible, Krishna in Bhagwad Gita, Vishnu in Vishnu Puraan, Brahma in Brahma Puraan and Shiva in Shiva Puraan. "Gloryfied"
'8' number quite a unique number. more even than number '4', if you can see numbers is 3D.
'9' number gives a beautiful ending to these numbers and that's how great in its own way. It completes. It could have been Rubik's (great philosopher and mathematician who invented Rubik's cube) favorite number. He might have loved it more than any one else. And how can we forget people who created Sudoko? It could have been their favorite and most respected number.
'0' number should be given utmost respect for saving mankind from inventing a million numbers for representing a million. Without '0' this world would have been a different world, very complex and very tiring. There is more, beacause of zero only boolean came into existance and then boolean algebra and then computers. Suddenly, I was imagining myself writing on the slate instead of MS Word. I am speechless.
After reading above article again and again, I decided..
And the award goes to……………..
9 is on position 3.
0 is on position 2
2 is on position 1.
So, from now onwards, 2 is my favorite number.
Its funny to see that all of the numbers from 0 to 9 were fighting for being number 1. And so for one instance, thought of number '1' being my favorite number came in my mind.
But, I would like to go for the feeling and which says number '2'.
Surely, it is a beautiful number
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