The Math of You:

This took me a while to work out poetically; math majors are welcome to grade my work. I was inspired by a phrase I heard recently. "In the equation of self-comparison, you are the denominator." (A modern rephrasing of a quote by Leo Tolstoy.)

I could not stop with that simple bit of paraphrased Tolstoy. I broke out my math books and started to ponder my notes. I continued the thought and a spin-off of Tolstoy. Think self-perception, ego, and pride.

The numerator shifts, yesterday, today, tomorrow.
When the ratio is greater than one, you might be selling yourself short, achieving more than you realize. When the ratio is less than one, perhaps you inflate your worth, measuring against a smaller self.

Therefore, the truth lives not in the number, but in how you keep dividing, and still becoming you.

If > 1 → you’ve grown more than you admit.
If < 1 → you remember yourself smaller than you are.
If = 1 → you stand equal to your own becoming.

The math is simple.
The meaning is not.

Yesterday​/You
Today/You
Tomorrow/You

Let's keep going:
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Tomorrow/You = i, certainly an imaginary. Predicting the future is hard.

The square root of you, the roots you’ve barely uncovered.

ln (you), the natural log. Every layer of you condensed to its bare essence.

∫You 𝑑𝑡 - the sum of where you have been under the curve, perhaps memories.

But if you are looking for the maximum you, (You)t will do to see the accumulation of a lifetime. Your lifetime achievement.