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Monday, April 28, 2008

Too Much: Just ‘Numbers’


Recently, one of my classmates discussed about event of Titanic. She said that dying a lot of people in Titanic was not that sorrowful. Yes. There were almost two thousand people (I think) died with Titanic. So, I said that it became number, instead of (usual) funeral.

Not only Titanic, but also many other tragedies, such as 9/11, earthquakes (such as in Mexico of 1980s), Tsunami (in 2004/5) were included in that ‘number’ list.

When it is too much amount, it becomes just ‘numbers.’ Even about money; Money is always one of the most attractive matters of us. Nevertheless, let me tell you here. When we say fifty thousand dollars ($ 50,000), one hundred thousand dollars ($ 100,000), one million dollars ($ 1,000,000), these amounts are very attractive; either you see or hear.
When we say one thousand billion dollars ($10,000,000,000,000), even though it is money (a lot of money), it is not attractive at all. Why? Probably, because of the amount is extremely huge, it became ‘numbers.’ Overwhelmed!

What do you think?


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