Okay, it's Saturday today (at least here in the Philippines), and I have no classes.
Having three-day weekends always bore me, and as with most people, I try to find different stuff to entertain myself, or simply to make time pass by. But it's still early in the morning, so there's not much stuff going on. Aside from starting a Blog, that is. A blog. You might be thinking, "WHUUT!? Your profile says you're a student of Mathematics! You can't possibly create a blog, you don't have a way with words!" I say that I think I do. You know, Mathematics is all about finding the right stuff that fits the equation you wanna solve. It's the same thing with Language (grammar, coherence, whatever else English terms you have). You try to find the right words that fits what you want to say, to see if they work well together.
So I started a blog (a BLOG!), and named it "With Respect to Time" (I think I'll change it one of these days, it sounds corny). There's this part of math that deals with the rate of change of different stuff, starting from the basic ones like the slope of a graph, to the more complex, like the change in the decaying matter in an object. The equations pertaining to those rates of change are called Differential Equations. They are pretty hard and confusing to deal with (especially when it comes to the more complex ones, obviously), because we have to find the different forces acting on an object, the parameters we have to work on, before we try to find a working formula. The equations are composed of the usual: variables, numbers, operations, etc, with the addition of the derivatives of the variables. They represent the rate of change of what the variable represents. For example, I have the variable i, representing a person's height, and t which represent the time. Now, di/dt, which is the derivative of i with respect to t, is the rate of change of the person's height during a particular interval of time. See? Easy as pi. Or not, but there, that's the easiest way I could explain it. Basta change.
What does change entail, in real life? Let's say a friend of mine migrated abroad. For one, and this is obvious, she (I'm not talking of anyone here, 'she' is just hypothetical) now lives abroad. Another one is that she's going to start a new life there without here friends here. Make new friends. It will take her a long time to visit her friends here. Worst case, she might forget us. See? Different parameters and so much variables.
To be honest, I used to hate change. I have lived my life with consistency (it's boring, don't try it). My family didn't like change too much too. Well, my father didn't like it, but my mom and I did, but we don't run the family. We took very few trips to anywhere, and it was only during school field trips or camps that I got out of the city. I haven't even been abroad. I have to say that my life is quite boring, and pretty sad.
It's all better now with change, I think. I try to think that change is good. I try to change myself, be more adventurous. There's just this little part of my heart that aches when something changes drastically. It stops me from being happy that something happened. But I'm alright.
My mind can comprehend that the world and everything in it is changing. "The only thing that is constant in the world is change." It's just that my heart can't catch up with everything.
So what does di/dt mean? I should've put a capital i to make more sense. It roughly means, "The change in me as time passes." (although not mathematically, because we have no idea what i represents.)
I have already wasted two hours writing all these stuff (wow, what a good way to pass time). Until next time! Probably later.
-DD.
