The Existence Construct

Proof of being using grade school maths

If existence was a place, I imagine it would be a valley.

Mountains can be arrived at, hills for going over, rivers are crossed through and it is wise to go around a precipice. Valleys, on the other hand, are usually come into.

They are, at least in my mind, sheltered places, lined with tall trees that let through the soft and nebulous light seen in dreams or a sunny day in Killarney, the kind that would tempt you to reach out and touch it.

A pleasant place to begin.

In fact, the most pleasant way to begin any journey is where others have begun theirs. But do so at your peril — pleasant isn’t a place often left willingly, and before long, we end in the same, snug spot we began, as if we had never moved at all.

Most who attempt the riddle of existence end where they start.

A brief stroll in vast Amazon will find you no shortage of books boasting the “why” of existence and turn out to be a regurgitation, in the author’s own unique bile, of thoughts put down by old, dead men.

I was fated to do the same. That is, until I pulled the joker card. You see, the courts of men are made of nobles and peasants who think the joke lands squarely on the other, but there is only the single fool, who spares none the butt of the joke and, at the same time, concedes to be the biggest one of them all.

But here is my joke anyhow:

I failed high school arithmetic. And I can barely add the loose change in my pocket to achieve the correct sum. So why numbers, of all things?

Well, some things in life defy denial. They simply are, no matter how I feel towards them.

Existence is infinite. And so it goes with numbers.

The pair are peas in a pod, that is, if the peas represent every single object in existence and there are an infinite number of said peas. Our humble slice of existence, our universe, is the set of numbers in brackets resembling the devil’s moustache tilted on its…

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