As I’ve been saying for the last week or so, “Triangles are the stupidest shape.” Ugh

I’ve been involved in a few of these geometric wonders in my past years and it’s a pain in the ass. I’m a firm believer in the circle. That’s a shape I can get down with. They’re perfect for birthday occasions where you sit in one of these modern marvels and everyone can talk to each other and nobody feels like they’re left out unlike these unruly shapes like square or rectangle. There’s always going to be a side or corner that will feel ostracized from the group.

So getting on with it, I’m noticing that I always end up finding myself in one of these angular death traps when I do all I can to avoid the bad ones. Things start out slow for both ends and each end spends the time building the rapport and the trust. There’s an unwritten understanding between either end and they get each other after some time. Enter the 3rd end point. These beasts are always introduced somehow and it’s different every time. The most treacherous thing about this 3rd end is that it completely changes the dynamic between the original pair. Each end is no longer what it once was. They are now corners: jagged and they come with 180 different degrees of “fun”.

The fact is, after this point, the trio is usually doomed as there are only a few outcomes of this. 2 corners find someway to become ends once more, and there’s a 3rd left out. Worse yet, the 3 corners can break all formation and become 3 malformed knobs that other ends wont want anything to do with.

It’s not to say all is lost. There’s always a lesson to be learned and silly putty to be bought and used to repair the damage. If you’re lucky, you realize that you’re different now and you move on, scuffed and better for it.

Despite all their infuriating properties, triangles exist and they’ve stood the test of time. I suppose the only problem is getting the right ends together which is the hard part. They are structurally the strongest shape and then you can slap 2 of these together and make yourself a structurally sound square. Right now, I aim to build myself a solid triangle, as aggravating as it can be, but this current proof I’m stuck might be filled with holes. We’ll see.

Tags: multi-problems, Vague-Stress

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