Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Endless possibilities

During a recent re-run episode of The Office, the Dunder Mifflin paper crew attended a high school job fair where Michael (Steve Carell) has Pam (Jenna Fischer) bring a single piece of paper as their booth attraction; no fancy brochures, lighted booths or attention-grabbing signs.... just a single sheet of paper. Michael's justification for the single sheet of blank paper is that it represents "endless possibilities".

This quote has been ringing around in my head for a couple weeks now. It was funny at the time I saw it on the show, but now it continues to ring true to me. I mean, seriously, a single sheet of blank paper could be a paper airplane, or a menu, a report, a tax return, a doodling space for a child, a love note, a piece of evidence, a suicide letter, a diary, a page from a book, a formula or truly an endless list of possibilities.

Then I started thinking about other types of "endless possibilities". The first couple things that come to mind are oceans and fractals. Fractals appear similar at all levels of magnification and are often considered to be infinitely complex. Oceans are visually endless.

I don't want to go too deep or anything, but some may even say that life is an endless possibility - a series of choices that could lead to endless possibilities...

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