Why?
With apologies to Shakespeare - "let me count the ways"
What numbers will we love?
birthdays data and crime lab stats as on television shows numbers addresses happy anniversaries milestone markers of our own children test scores lotteries horse races What numbers should we hate [or dislike]?
school math birthdays weight body mass index test scores sad anniversaries Some numbers have been in both categories because our love or hate sometimes depends on the actual number!
Numbers in cultures and religions
In a few cultures our age number is assigned whenever we finish that year and in other cultures that age number is offered at the outset of the entire year - beginning on day one of life. Which means you age number will differ according to your culture!
In Hebrew, all letters have a very numerical equivalent each word's number will be the total of those individual numbers - therefore words have numerical meaning as well as the literal meaning. And the Hebrew bible [Torah or Old Testament] has a book called Numbers.
Particular numbers have significance determined by your beliefs. Many of these are 3, 7, and 666.
Children love numbers
counting games board games birthday candles the number of cookies or presents a comparative age just endless reciting of numbers or counting Teens and Adults enjoy the love-hate relationship with numbers
Whenever we so love numbers if we are young - how are you affected that individuals begin to dislike them?
Let's move on with parents who love to discuss the terrible 2's. Would be the 2's so "terrible" or are we pre-programmed to think so? And can we pass this onto our little ones in order that they start learning that some numbers are not-so-good???
You have to possess the amorphous "someone" who tells us that arithmetic is hard. I don't know who started this myth however it is a myth. Worse - we tell children that arithmetic is tougher for girls compared to boys! So those numbers learn to type in the hate category.
We love turning 13! We have been teenagers! And soon we can easily drive!
We wish to get a's and b's in class and on the tests that "matter." If the numbers are not that which you were hoping or expecting we sad as well as depressed. Yet a smattering of us question whether those test numbers mean anything in person outside school. We assign love/hate for many years.
And in many countries we like to reaching the legal ages of driving, drinking and voting or marrying. These are most often good numbers so we love them.
Unless, naturally, we hate them!
Look at the numbers that you experienced and instead of having a love/hate relationship using them, think about the things they mean to you and why...and after that discover how to love all of them! They're your numbers and they're you!
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