Truth in Numbers

There is truth in all kinds of things. Today, I see truth in numbers. They do not lie, they only exist. They are what they are, and they are only moved around and changed by those of us who would use them. We use them to assign value, to count how many or how few. We use them to grade each other. While numbers don't feel or care about which number they are, we crave certain numbers, certain scores, certain thresholds. Salaries, bank accounts, zip codes, ACT scores, IQ scores, and net worth. Numbers are things that we think are so very important to us. But to them, they are just what they are. And so are we.