I have three kids. Two boys and a girl. They are so different in so many ways that it's amazing they all come from the same genes. But sometimes, they're correlated. This week I told them that they are absolutely banned from any electronic devices after 8:00 pm on school nights. They all reacted the same way. Absolute incredulity. "How can this be?" they all three asked.
They all have different plans of defiance, but they will all fail. Because I'm one step ahead of them. They are all facing a unmovable force and they know it. They just want to make sure.
If I were to try to describe my kids, the last thing I would use is a mathematical concept that regresses them on a linear surface. Even though they appear to be behaving in unison, it's only because they all share a dominant force. And that would be their mother. In that way, I'm correlated to them.
The other night, just before the 8:00 pm pumpkin call, we all decided to dance to some tunes. It was a most interesting thing to observe how they were correlated to the notes and lyrics of the song. They knew the lyrics and sang them in unison. They were correlated.
In the right environment, everyone and everything is correlated. Once that environment erodes, there is the inevitable "quote" -- decoupling. Our song was over and they all went to their separate bedrooms. They decoupled from a momentary correlation. Or was it an opaque relationship? I'm still tapping my foot trying to get it.
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