The telegraph poles of life!
I'm reminded of a snippet I read a long time ago.The author draws a simple yet profound analogy between telegraph poles and life. By the way,I don't think telegraph poles exist anymore,but the analogy holds.
You look out the window of a moving vehicle and see a telegraph(electric if you like) pole.It looms large in your eyes.And then,in an instant it starts diminishing.It gets smaller and smaller and finally fades away into oblivion.Before you have time to process this,the next pole appears and all your attention is drawn to it.
Such is life.We obsess over these tiny little things without realizing that they will soon be irrelevant.We reach heights of ecstasy and sorrow over things that don't even matter in the big picture.
It's all transient.There one moment and gone the next.
And yet,over and over again,we make the mistake of missing the forest for the trees.
P.S:It's funny how thoughts travel.I was pondering over the transient response of some circuit and all of a sudden this just popped into my head.Unlike circuits,I don't think there's a steady state in life.You get to what you think is a steady state till the next pulse/impulse/ramp arrives to jolt you out of your equilibrium.
You look out the window of a moving vehicle and see a telegraph(electric if you like) pole.It looms large in your eyes.And then,in an instant it starts diminishing.It gets smaller and smaller and finally fades away into oblivion.Before you have time to process this,the next pole appears and all your attention is drawn to it.
Such is life.We obsess over these tiny little things without realizing that they will soon be irrelevant.We reach heights of ecstasy and sorrow over things that don't even matter in the big picture.
It's all transient.There one moment and gone the next.
And yet,over and over again,we make the mistake of missing the forest for the trees.
P.S:It's funny how thoughts travel.I was pondering over the transient response of some circuit and all of a sudden this just popped into my head.Unlike circuits,I don't think there's a steady state in life.You get to what you think is a steady state till the next pulse/impulse/ramp arrives to jolt you out of your equilibrium.
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