I’ve read a myriad of books since the age of 10. Each day, Each year felt like a new breath as I picked one book after another. As I slowly evolved into the person I am right now, I believe there's a very big, large, influence of books in there somewhere. To quote Rory Gilmore, ‘I live in two worlds; one is the world of books’.
‘Fault in our stars’ was the first book I read by John Green. Since then I've been more or less reading all his ‘NYTIMES’ bestsellers on a daily basis. At first the books seemed very vast, complicated, and intellectual. But with every passing day as I try to understand what these books, what this author is actually trying to say, I can comprehend the depth of each book at an optimistic level.
Abundance of Katherine is one of a kind. It’s extraordinary, I must say. This book uses science in a way that isn't really imaginable. spoiler: It appears that, there's math in literature. Yeah, I was pretty dumbfounded too. It's absolutely mental to think literature can be used to portray math, and it's not even you know, 2 + 2=4, it’s basic calculus, which is much worse. Calculus is scary, trust me when I say that. The trauma it brings is absolutely out of this world. But when you join, you know, intertwine math with literature, it gets one degree spicier.
By the way, if you think this is a summary of ‘Abundance of Katherines’ it’s not, go google it dummy. It’s just my thoughts in a very vague way so as to not give away the plot.
Thereby, I've got a lot of mixed feelings about this book. I mean the plots are pretty dope, not to mention how he, meaning, John Green structured the components and designed it. But to be absolutely honest, this book is very intellectual, and it's kind of influential too but at the end it's just philosophy you know. Same old, Same old.
Basically the protagonist of the story wants to be mattered. Well, if you think about it, don't we all want to be mattered? At some point or the other you would want your work, your honest opinions and thoughts to make a mark on the people, on the society. It's natural and it's obvious. There's no shame in wanting to be mattered. Although, there's shame in seeking vengeance when you are not mattered. You won't be called a genius by a lot of people, but those who know you will call you a talented old soul, and that's all that matters.
I mean, do you ever think that instead of trying to do world changing stuff, you can just take a deep breath, step aside and live in the present without trying to have to prove yourself every 5 minutes. Have you ever wondered that what matters can only be defined as what you think matters, not everyone else. Let's say, someone thinks you should wear red for whatever reason, but you don't want to. If you think you are going to matter by just abiding by whatever stuff they ask you to do even that's against your will, especially when your will is not harmful. You are not bound to them, you are bound to you, your family. No one else should be in this equation. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you've got your eureka moment in front of a large crowd, it only matters when you get your eureka moment by yourself, because youdefine howyoumatter.
“Eureka” - What is the real story behind Archimedes Eureka?
Archimedes has gone down in history as the guy who ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka!" — or "I have it!" in Greek. The story behind that event was that Archimedes was charged with proving that a new crown made for Hieron, the king of Syracuse, was not pure gold as the goldsmith had claimed. - says www.livescience.com
The story goes that Archimedes stepped into the bath and caused it to overflow. This made him think. The water that had splashed out of the tub when he stepped in was equal to the volume taken up by his body. It was this discovery that provided Archimedes with the solution to King Hiero's gold crown problem. - says www.twinkl.co.uk
This means that after a lot of thought, the famous Greek mathematician found out a problem to which he was facing difficulty, but when he finally got the solution he yelled eureka out of enthusiasm in finally finding the solution. this metaphor is used when someone is struggling with something and when they finally overcome that issue, they scream eureka out of joy as eureka means - ‘I have it!’
