Outliers

I remember writing pages of (non) fictional feelings, emotions, understanding, events of my day to day life or an analytical sum. After high school we had long gap in academics. I was so much into writing I even thought of choosing some literary writing course for profession. Luckily, unluckily as things sorted out I ended up in an engineering campus. So eventually feelings switched into logic and emotions integrated into maths, understanding transformed into analysis. Events scaled up to engineering problems, writing shifted from literature to tech and business.

Now that I look back, much of it was about being directed and clear on what is that makes professional value. As they say, choice can be made given we have options. Back then, it was much about finding out possible values as now it’s about sorting them. Usually sorting is a biased process where things of one quality are prioritized, humiliating others — especially the out of order ones. Much of nature behaves accordingly — sorting — biasing — prioritizing and humiliating. As the most successful product of nature we ruthlessly follow similar trends — knowingly or lyingly. Truth be told — we are biased, we sort and at the very basic we keep our options to chose from.

While our path forward up till now makes sense — those irrelevant texts, people then and sensible beings of now. We are growing and things are naturally sorting out. But sometimes, I happen to miss that irrelevance, that extra nonsense. Given, I had to sort them out, prioritize 'em — those would exist somewhere far from my cluster but within my group. Those random values of life and those who find life in it — Outliers.

Out·li·er (noun)

\-ˌlī(-ə)r\

a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.