The “bigger“ half

One must sometimes use very illogical expressions to at least partially explain himself. As every philosophy student would tell you, our language is not capable of answering a big complicated existentional question. When talking about absolute truth or god or other stuff, one must go behind our language, hoping that others will understand what he meant.

The first two years in Aberdeen went swimmingly and all the results were very acceptable (at least I was happy with them). I have found favourite places, friends, interesting books, churches, cathedrals, cozy cafes and much more in the granite city. My career in the Maths Society is rising up as I became a treasurer for the next year – it is a great challange and I am really happy for that opportunity. Yep, last two years went smoothly. And now I am in the middle. But there are different halves, not any two are the same, eventhough it sounds ridiculous. If you really want to find some sense in it, lets say that every half has different weight – they are the same in time, but different with respect to energy or work or something. In the light of the absolute nothing can be really splitted into two halves but numbers. But our world is not just numbers.
Let me tell you one little story.


While I was volunteering at the European Games of Handicaped Youth Emil Open in Brno this June I was watching swimming races. And I recognized very famous thing: poor race results yealding from bad planning. Many sportsmen, full of adrenalin and excitement, set off like a ball from a gun, but then had to slow down rapidly after a few metres because their body and mind were not prepared for such a speed. Some started too quickly, others too slowly – so they did not have enought time to show how fast they really were in the end. 

Let me tell you one more little story.
This years holiday in Georgia – for long time desired and thought out – which I absolved with group of friends this June was very adventurous. In the beginning we decided to climb Mt. Chkeeru – 3587 mentres high mountain. Everything was fine and easy until 2000 metres. Then very steep climbing started, our shoes were slipping on wet gras and slate stones. At one point I got quite scared – one wrong step could have started serious fall down. Such an experience was probably usuall for people in the past, but nowadays people do not balance between life and injury in such obvious way. We got up to 2500 metres altitude. In front of us was another steep climbing and then another climbing on the glacier. We had no special equipment. Maybe (and I would say so) you would now expect me to write that we did it, we climbed up to the top, happyend, everyone was happy, blah blah. And also that people should have big derams and go for them although it sounds totally mad to reach them. I do not think so. Of course, it is important to have big dreams, but the long time prepartion for them is even more important. We were not ready, and it is not brave to do something you cannot do, it is silly. So we climbed down. And I am proud we made that decision.
The most important thing in human life is usually the ability to estimate how much power and energy we have and how much of it is left for the future. Going over the edge is sometimes necessary, but always tricky and often silly. If we are able to precisely estimate what we can and cannot do, we are also able to pre-plan the swimming race in the best possible way. On the other hand, if we see that we do not have enough energy and power for climbing the mountain top, we have to stop, get back and then start working so the next try will be more successful. That is no cowardice, it is wisdom. There is always one more race and one more mountain top waiting for us, nothing important appears just once.


And, in a way, this is extremely similar to my studying. As I already said, it is certain that the first half of my studying in Aberdeen is now finished.  But I have no idea if it was the bigger half or the smaller one. However, I believe that by long-term hard work anything is possible. And that is the reason why I have planed enough time for studying Maths this summer – I have bought some books about the Set theory and Group theory, Infinite Series and found some nice online math chanels. It would be silly climbing to the high mountain top without ice exes and enough energy.
Not everyone can afford to work and be getting better in a field of his or her interest. Not everyone can study at the university which really helps him or her in personal developement and pushes forward. I do have such an opportunity thanks to The Kellner Family Foundation and I am very grateful for that. I thank to the Foundation for their support, because thanks to them I can work and thus have the next swimming race better planned and the next high mountain peak easier climbed.

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