An Unusual Thought

Being an engineering student and a bibliophile I have always been bewildered by the concept of infinity.

Mathematicians call it an unreachable and absurd idea without even recognizing it as a numeral but much more of a symbol, physicists love to use its essence while dealing with calculus, salespeople and the marketing departments use infinity in the senses of euphemism while selling out their products and stating its vastness over the other products in similar markets thus trying to create obscure and ambiguous competitive relations among each other, and my beloved author Mr.Green in his bestselling novel "The Fault in our Stars" wonderfully stated that 'some infinities are bigger than other infinities.' and using phrases like 'you have given me a forever within numbered days' has for sure left many readers in awe.

Well, even for a less mature and much mixed-up brain like mine infinity has played some really good cards and has strung lot many intriguing chords of the guitar named "Provoking Thoughts" in my idea factory. Several forays of my thoughts into this obscure nature of Infinity have led to a lot many ruminations and thoughts that I am willing to portray via this piece of writing. 

Infinity is an abstract manifestation of ours. It's like fiddling the mind of yours with a dynamic thought or a chain of reactions or even simply staring straight into the horizon all to know that the end is somewhere. The End perspective of infinity or the anthropoid urge to wrap up this ambiguity and shackle away the chains of absurdness and obscurity has been one of our few muses to construct an approach towards this fatuous and trifling idea of ours. Our minds are carved out in such a manner that reaching out for everything has always been our foremost necessity. This unpropitious need of ours has led to thousands of unfortunate happenings during the whole course of human history. Juxtaposing the previously stated fact one might say that this ideology of ours has even led to prominent as well as appreciable inventions and discoveries. Well, the very fact that infinity is an unknown can't be questioned but the reaches of these unknowns for sure has come under the scanner of few of our greatest minds.

A beautiful and yet simple approach towards understanding the abstract nature of Infinity could be comprehended from a few lines written below...

"To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wildflower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour."

The very essence of infinity is not be found on the number line or in our befuddled thoughts but I'd say in the perpetual and ordinary actions and ideas of ours. It's not the very vastness that surprises us but our brian's incapacity of not realizing the humility of the fact that perpetuation is what consolidates infinity.

Let it be the numerous cycles, chains, and rhythms being played in the vastness and foreverness of our universe to our small breathing cycles of the tiniest organisms. This incomprehensibility is what makes us intrigued and at the same time cautious regarding Infinity. The repetitive nature and the unusual essence of realizing that in this vastness of cosmos we are nothing more than a speck of dust revolving around a comparatively big gaseous sphere and it's the forces of nature keeping our soul and body one that defines infinity. Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life- this is what you are here for.

I am incapable of conceiving the idea of infinity, and yet I don't accept finity.

-Simone de Beauvoir