Tuesday, December 20, 2005

How's this analogy?

I came up with this analogy an hour back...I thought I might as well write it down. Consider a large room with a large ceiling. The ceiling is rigid, made of concrete. So is the floor. The ceiling is like a thin line that represents the super geniuses. They won't change and will always remain on the top unless of course a tornado strikes or some such acts of God happen. Let's not get into that. The floor is like a thin line that represents the really dumb people. They also won't change, nor will they allow themselves to change 'cause they are so dumb. The air space in the middle is made up of average people. Some air molecules stay on the top, close to the ceiling, some air molecules stay close to the floor. It is entirely possible that the molecules can be brought down or brought up and so it is entirely possible that there are different grades of average people. But the point is, the average people will continue to remain average. They never become the ceiling or the floor. The average man's life will inevitably get averaged out, like the motion of the air molecules between the ceiling and the floor. The celing and floor will cling to their respective places. I have a feeling that I belong in the middle :)

-------------------------CEILING = GENIUSES------------------------------

AIR MOLECULES = MEDIOCRE PEOPLE

--------------------------FLOOR = DUMBASSES------------------------------

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