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People are not Equations to be Solved
<p>For most of my life, understanding had always been a product of deduction.</p><p>Everything was mathematical and formulaic to me.</p><p>Y = f(x).</p><p>Find the function and the outcome reveals itself.</p><p>That was how I believed the world worked.</p><p>Now I’m not so sure.</p><p>I keep replaying the conversation, tracing each sentence like a chain of causes and effects. Somewhere in that process, an uncomfortable thought has begun to settle in.</p><p>I had been trying to understand the structure of the problem.</p><p>She had been trying to explain the weight of it.</p><p>I’m beginning to suspect that both approaches matter.</p><p>That distance clarifies patterns, but proximity reveals meaning.</p><p>And perhaps understanding people requires both.</p><p>The strange thing is that I might have realized this too late.</p><p>I don’t know if she will ever speak to me again.</p><p>I don’t even know if I deserve that chance.</p><p>But for the first time in my life, I find myself hesitating before reducing something to an equation.</p><p>Because the variables were never numbers.</p><p>They were people.</p><p>And people, I am learning, do not live inside functions.</p>
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