Happy Pi Day 3.14 The Most Irrational Thing

Like a writer! Or a writer that was born with the love for numbers like I was and still am. I admit my math skills aren’t as sharp as they used to be but I still add and multiple license plates when driving, I’m still the go to for all my children’s at home math tutor whether it’s algebra or integers. And I still recall high school class where I added the elements together and loved it so much!

Math is the only universal language.

Math is the only absolute.

But Pi?! An infinite, irrational number that somehow makes our equations work and yet it seems to be simple gibberish.

I suppose that’s what us writers do too. We plug gibberish together over and over until it forms something that resembles a story or a poem. Words, unlike numbers, has to be twisted and contorted from what the original meaning was just to make something poetic and new.

For example, I was in a writing webinar this morning, the teacher gave us different writing games to try. One was word association, but pick the absolute worst word.

So she said fear. I wrote toast.

Why? I don’t know. I like toast. I mean, what other food can be cooked twice to produce something completely different than the original product!? I certainly can’t say I like fear.

So here I have Fear and Toast and she says- now write a loose metaphor as to how those two words relate to each other. And I was blown away by the gibberish my brain vomited out.

I wrote this-

Fear, like toast, is a scorched emotion, blackened and dark corners of our soul that can singe us if we hold on to it too long.

Fear, like toast, is pushed down into the metaphorical appliance of our being so we can hide it away but it will most certainly pop up and expose itself for what it truly is- a darker version of ourselves that we want to devour in secret so as to not risk someone noticing the mess of crumbs we’ve creates on our T shirt.

So here’s to all the things we don’t understand but accept as a fact.

Like how fear can be so irrational that panic attacks happen in grocery stores and a flowery stem can be changed to powder to bread to toast and a number that has no rhyme or reason can be so famous, it has a day of its.

Happy Pi Day 3.14

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197

Forever hooked on numbers and dark things,

Norma Rrae