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Today was an interesting day, something I would really not do normally, but did do, and I quite enjoyed myself.

The highlight of the day was meeting a sighing friend (who is quite bizzare), her baby friends and her cousin. It was her cousin who had me a bit uncomfortable for sometime. (I am not sure if she was just making fun of me, or if she was serious), but there were a few questions she asked me, to which the answers I gave did not even convince me. And this made me reevaluate some of my beliefs in life. Turns out in the end, it was because I used the wrongs words that I could not answer her questions convincingly.

The first question was, “Are you one of those who think life is unfair?”. And my answer was “life is what you make of it” (or some other words which I wanted to convey this effect, though I am not sure how successful I was in that endeavour).  To which her response was yet another question. “Do you think life is supposed to be logical or do you look for the logic in life?”. My answer to this was in the affirmative and I got one hell of a lecture. And I had no answer for it. Once I got back home, I started evaluating the question, and my answer and wondered if I was following a wrong belief in life. And here is my analysis.

The first question was misunderstood by me. I for some reason took fairness to be the same as ease. And now that I have this corrected, I would modify my answer to be, “Life is not meant to be easy, but at the end of the day it will be fair. If you do wrong, you will be wronged, and if you have been wronged, you will be righted as well later on”. The other very strong belief I have is that everything happens for the good. Time and again this lesson has been forced onto me and I have started becoming more accepting of things going bad with me, with the belief that it is for the best. Anyway, this question was not the one that disturbed me.

What disturbed me was the second question and the fact that I did not have answer to that. I started re-evaluating my thoughts when I realized that the answer had been there in front of me all along. What is logic? logic is a pattern. What happens in an IQ test, the one who identifies the most patterns and the most obscure patterns is supposedly the most intelligent. Now, however powerful and complex the human brain is, there is a limit to the complexity it can handle. It has to follow a pattern. Say for example, when one gets up, one brushes, then shaves, then bathes, has breakfast and goes to work. This is a pattern. Another pattern is followed during the weekend. Even the so called “non-patterns” can be “patterned” at a higher level. And the moment you find patterns, you have found logic. Voila! I think the high-IQ people find it easier to find the logic since they are trained to find patterns. (Note, I did not say high IQ means smarter. I am not sure about that, and the definition of smartness is up for debate. FWIW, I thought the sighing cousin was quite smart, but more on that later on…). So, the answer to sighing cousin is life has logic, like it or not. You might not just be having a high enough IQ to see it (which is why the previous statement )

Now, you may choose not to find the logic, which is a completely different issue altogether and I might have completely misunderstood the question as well. But at least now I can rest with a clear mind that I did not have beliefs shattered (at least until the comments start coming in!)