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Why Do Numbers Determine So Many Things?

These are the numbers that can either be celebrated or can hurt people.

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Why Do Numbers Determine So Many Things?
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Why do numbers weigh so highly on the scale of life?

I understand that time is all numbers and that's a basis of everyone's daily life, but why do we go by these numbers? We have celebrations of the day we were born so our year’s total of living can increase by one number. We do the same with anniversaries or recoveries or when the size of our waist shrinks.

We let these numbers be happy celebrations as if things get better as time moves forward and things change. That we enjoy living by these positive numbers. What about the numbers that we do not like being defined by? Such as, the numbers on the scale or a number that grades you on how smart you are. These are the numbers that can either be celebrated or can hurt people.

I do not want you leaving this article with the knowing of how I think about numbers, but I want to keep you thinking about what those numbers really mean to you. I want you to be able to embrace those numbers. I want you to realize that there is no number too big or too small. Every number is right as long as you know it’s your own. There is a clear reason to why these numbers weigh so highly. It is because we are so obsessed with the way they are placed into our lives to the point where they determine what we can and can not do. We even rate things and people daily by these numbers.

We use these number to create new things, new thoughts, new theories. We use these numbers to keep ourselves alive; to make sure our bodies are functioning right.

We go by these numbers to keep proper track of when things occur.

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