The Curve of Life
"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences." - J.K. Rowling. Go to the Home Page In science, in management, in other areas of study and in life, we often come across several types of curves - the learning curve, the bell curve, elliptical curves, beauty curves and so on. While deliberating over the choices we make in life and their consequences, I realized that a life can be represented by a dynamic curve, which represents the state of our life in real-time. Our life is a curve, which we metaphorically draw with our hands and every decision that we take, determines the direction and slope of the figure. At the time of our birth, when we're at the zero position on the X-axis, which represents the time axis, our Y-coordinates are determined by a number of factors - the family we're born into, the country and the society we're born in, our mental capacity, our health etc. Let's call this the beginning point of life