My son told me today that he learned at school that a curve is really just made of lots and lots of little straight lines. Being skeptical, I asked him to explain. He said that if we could zoom in closer and closer to look at a curve, we would notice the line getting straighter and straighter. This, he explained, was why a curve was really just a lot of tiny straight lines put together. I tend to believe that it is just an illusion. Because, the samples are really just infinitely straighter and straighter, but never fully straight. That would be impossible.
So, like our lives, when a change is made, it can occur gradually over much time, and seem like no change whatsoever has occurred. I have heard that this sort of thing is actually used as a tactic in mind-control, called the Hegelian dialectic, where small changes over periods of time add up to the desired larger change. Like the proverbial frog in the boiling water, we measure things by their relation to something else, rather than their absolute value. Is definitely something to think about.
"Little by little an hour, little by little a day. Little by little you reach your goal, or let it slip away...." May we always be mindful of absolute truth, and the Giver of it, so that we can measure our lives appropriately, and not get overtaken by those with evil intent. By the same token, may we always keep trying, keep believing, and keep trusting, so that our small steps in the right direction will turn into a pattern, then a habit, then a lifestyle.
May the Giver of Life pour blessings upon you.....
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