Devi mahtmiyam

Sunday, July 13, 2008

what is enough? is there a measure?

I have thought about it a great deal and always am confused. After a big chain of logical inferences I arrive at the result: there is no measure for 'enough'. It is a relative term.
So is beauty, money, power, intelligence,love--- all relative terms
Now is there something we can all say is not relative but is absolute in this world?
Maybe not, because our existence itself is governed by so many metrics! So what to say of a particular dimension of existence like love, beauty etc? eh??

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Chechi, it's 'enough' only when the object satisfies the desire or need of the concerned person.
'Enough' depends on the person; but then 'enough' food, water, is okay, but when it comes to love, beauty, is there anyone who had enough of it?

Rohini Sivaraman said...

Speaking of absolute relativity: Einstein says:

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

Unknown said...

I agree, but if Einstein got stumped proving the relativity law down to the level of atoms and sub-atoms, I am stumped too...It's all chaos down there.
It's bad that the question mark in my comment is not going away ;)