Life as a Variable

Parth Sarda
3 min readMar 13, 2021

Think about life as a second and then analyze don’t you find more variables than constants.

Variables — Meaning

Variable is an unknown quantity. Anything that is unknown to us is a variable. It is a mathematical term for describing numbers which are not know to us. For example in an equation 3x +2y = 10; in this equation the x and y are variables and their value varies time by time. The Opposite of Variable is a Constant which is a number whose value doesn’t vary at anytime. A number such as 2 is a constant as its value will always be the same.

Variables in Life

Variable though being a mathematical term can be used to describe life and its state of affairs. Life from the start never remains a fact as it changes throughout its course. We even don’t know what tomorrow holds for us. Even the slightest of the thing is a variable like a grain of sand which blows away as the wind moves. We from the start to the end are marked by the variables of life like going to school than college than work than retirement and the end. We are often in a moral dilemma that we and our surroundings are eternal and will be forever, but the truth is that we all variables that the life has. Leading from our emotions, ambitions, thinking etc. are all variables which change in the passage of time. We are the entropy of this vast universe which goes from a state of order to disorder with the arrow of time.

We are in a delusion that we will be the same forever but like it’s said that even a diamond is not forever. Our thinking of being a constant forever is short-lived. There hadn’t been a bigger delusion than we being constant. We from the start have different phases which vary and are relative to us as we progress. We have our moments like happy, sad, joyous, fascinating, shocking, etc. Our surroundings like the building, houses, parks change continuously. From the objects in science like Symmetry, fields, and particles which change their form repeatedly. The state of human life though not accepted to our brains is a variable to which we constantly evolve like the recent development in technology. We sometimes even like these variables of life as the life is never a constant.

Time as a Variable

Time is never a constant as it always keeps changing. All the changes in our surrounding are with respect to the time. Time described as a ‘stubborn illusion’ by one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, Albert Einstein seems to be the cause of the change of the state of affairs of our surrounding. The variable nature of time is often unexpected by the humans, but it still changes constantly with no boundaries as the time that is required by me to write this article which took around one hour unexpectably without me even noticing it.

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Parth Sarda

I am just a student looking out in the vast world. I am interested in Science, Humanity. I love to explore new things and to find out the truth behind things.