YA n B?
It's so funny and interesting...this whole people thing. Is it like this with other people?
As I look around me I realise that people's lives are very much like venn diagrams--countless circles interlocking at certain points (not one specific point because they can't unless there are only two of them); no two sets are subsets of each other in my theory. There's always someone you know that your friend doesn't know and vice versa; something you have in common with someone else and something you don't.
And then where does this friend business come in? Is it only in the areas that you have in common with others? Are there no friends in disjoint sets? What happens when the two sets drift away, then, to occupy completely different spheres? What happens to the friendship then?
What if--what if you know that area of set A that is common with the other set B (A n B) diminishes? Is the strength of the friendship directly proportional to A n B?
I can think of a few examples that disprove this theory. I neglect to take into consideration the fact that humans are as irrational as humans go. Set theory and theories of probability can't be applied to humans in this way.
jac was here with you
3/11/2004 06:17:00 pm