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Statistics No More..

Statistics.. Probability.. Compatibility, these are all concepts based upon chance and yes some statistics may have patterns that back them up per say but that makes them a chance no less. I've been thinking tonight how it's kind of ironic that were at a day in age where we talk endlessly about self discovery and figuring out who we truly are as people etc, and yet we trust so much in statistics. A statistic is a fact for some people but not all, it is defined as "a fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data". According to this definition, a statistic is a number... If we are truly trying to figure out who we are as people then why so often do we degrade ourselves and one another to a number? Think about this for a while, it might drive you fairly insane just as it has me. We have statistics of who is most likely to graduate, statistics of how many people will encounter a certain situation in their lives, statistics of how many people will contract a disease, statistics of what body types and personal lifestyles will make a person live the longest, statistics about someones personality type without even knowing the person. If you look close enough there are enough statistics, enough numbers, to literally cover a persons life from the day they are born to the day they die. It saddens me that we as people are so commonly being degraded to numbers, that our lives are simply a scratch on the number line.. Something even more interesting then statistics though is how many people defy them, those people aren't included in the calculation more often then not and if they are then their considered the odd ball out. We all have unique qualities specific to us that guess what, statistics can't define or even recognize, and this is because we are more then numbers! I want to remind everyone tonight no matter who you are or where you are, that you are so much more then the numbers, equations and words that this world tries to use to define you! You are a person with a personality that no one else has, you have skill sets specific to you, and you are not a statistic! You have 100% of the power to write your own story, stop trying to add up the equations constantly swirling around you, stop trying to fit into equations and wondering why you don't. You weren't meant to, you were never meant to be a number on someones spreadsheet. God gave you a beating heart and a buzzing mind to give you the tools needed to touch hearts of those around you and to decipher the world, he gave all of us unique qualities to set us apart and to do his work in this world. Guess what, numbers don't do any work, the ones calculating them do the work. We were not made to sit back and let others calculate our lives. We have the opportunity to write our own stories full of love, laughter, faith and feelings that no number can ever describe. What will your story entail?

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