Friday, September 17, 2004

Occam's Razor

When faced with many solutions to the same problem, choose the simplest one. That's the gist of Occam's razor.
Somehow, as my bored self channel surfed today, I came across this drama serial that had 2 characters telling each other what love actually is. It struck me as their defination was quite simple.
1) If you are scared to talk to the person, yet feel unhappy if he (generic he here) is not around, you'll feel unhappy as well
2) When you're happy, you want to share your happiness with him; when you're sad, you want his shoulder to cry on and for him to comfort you.
3) When you like someone, you want to do things for him to make him happy, as making him happy would make you happy as well
There were others, but they slip my mind. Well, it seems to show that love is actually such a simple thing. Maybe it is just as simple as 2 people who have mutual feelings for each other which are stronger than friendship, who come together, do things together, do things for each other, and admiration will evolve into love, which continues to blossom as they go along life together. A very big maybe then. How's that for simplifying the most complex process or emotion in life into one sentence?
I always say, if life was too easy, the challenge would go out of it. Still, maybe some things are in need of simplification, of keeping other things ceteris paribus while you deal with it. Can we ever do this? The other factors change too fast, and what you do may mess it up more...
Oh well, still a bit affected by the music video for kiss' because I'm a girl. It's about this photographer guy who meets this hairdresser girl and well fall in love, but he leaves a bottle of developing photos liquid uncapped and she accidentally knocks it and it pours into her eyes, blinding her. Blaming himself, he gives his eyes to her as a result loses his career as a photographer. It's very touching, so much so this heartless idiot felt some twang of the heart strings.
What of it? I swear to always cap everything I use from now on. And well, when the right time comes, everything will fall in place.

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