/Bully-ean Algebra/

I would like to apologize for the nature of my blog entry titles. As we progress week after week in the IT lab class, I found the topics getting more difficult. After binary arithmetic, we delved into Boolean algebra. I first encountered this while I was a fourth year highschool student, still eager to impress my Physics teacher who cared less about the subject than about her looks. So I got used to illustrating logic gates and solving them.

But I have never imagined simplification.

Don’t get me wrong—simplifying logic operations enable us to cut our computer costs and to speed up the data processing time of our CPU. Computers are just that awesome. But it takes a lot of patience and power to analyze and simplify things. Just like in real life, wherein we wish for simpler things, only to be thrown on the most complicated ones. Also, oftentimes, it is easier to understand complexities than the simple things. Life is like that. Boolean algebra is, also.

But just because we could understand more of the complexities, we stop trying to uncover the complexities of the simple things. No. I believe that it is a valid pursuit to make things simpler, to make it understandable (though this is daunting and cumbersome). After such, we appreciate reality better. We accept it.

Life is a bully, but this does not stop us from wanting to be alive and happy. Boolean algebra is also a bully, but this does not stop us from learning and knowing how to solve and simplify logic gates.  At the very least, this is true for me.