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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Present


I wish I could live in the moment. How nice it would be if I can just live in the present without worrying too much about the future and regretting the past. How philosophically appealing this concept maybe which many have literally taken it so seriously as adapting them in to the lifestyle of no-plan and no-worries. There is no exact present. What there is is the constant flowing stream of event that just keeps flowing. In order to live in that very present and even that is a poorly defined condition. What is present? Today, This minute, This Second, This Milisecond... and it continues. Remember in today we have 24 hours which each of it contains 60 second in which each has 1000 milisecond. So how do we exactly live for the present if we do not even know or locate the present. We just trapped between a very narrow gap or infinitely narrow gap between past and future. As past is described as something that happened before right now and future as something after. In mathematics we understand the concept of limit or something that is infinitely large or something that is infinitely small. If we take a variable x and inverse and put in the largest possible positive real number we will have the result of the inverse as the smallest possible positive real number close to zero (But not zero). This is the very concept that we can adapt to describe "present". An infinitely small gap between the future and the past. But how small is small? Can we quantify it? Just like the illustration of the inverse of an infinitely large positive real number which is infinitely small value that is very very very small but not smaller than zero. If we can not quantify it, it does not mean we can not define it. Thanks to Mathematics and Limit. However this unquantifyable entity builts up a series of the event that happened before that very small gap and continues to build side by side to the future.

2 days Impression on Germany

Okay, perhaps I should be more specific: impression on Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Wispertal.
Frankfurt is the capital of commerce of Germany situated in the federal state of Hesse. Frankfurt was practically flattened out during the second world war which shows from its (relatively) lacking-of-borjuis-style architecture that had been rampantly (in some parts) replaced by somewhat the so-called more modern style counterparts of architecture. A big euro building and the stock exchange are one of the few highlights in the financial department along with the old opera house in the more artsie fartsie department. Frankfurt is quite an international hub sheltering 40% of foreigners in its 700000 inhabitants. Heading West, Wiesbaden is the capital of Hesse where richer people live and reserved-heritage-of-old buildings are still existing. During the second world war the city was "lucky" enough to be considered (relatively) unimportant that it was not aggresively "flattened out" as the case of Frankfurt except for occasional missed-aim bombs which damaged relatively small parts of the city. It is a relatively rich residential area with facilities such as a Casino and century age old hotels.
Tomorrow I will be heading northwest to Paris.

PS: Pictures will be posted as soon as I arrive back in Zurich.
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