can we apply hooke's law to people?

The hooke's law states that stress is directly prop to strain till u reach a yielding point beyond which elasticity is lost - the break-point. Strain = change in dimension produced due to an external force acting on the body.

here's my opinion...This law applies to us as humans too and truth is im beyond my breaking point right now. But my friend Anurag disagrees... here's a gist of what v spoke of... (unlike most people who know me up-close n personal, anu insists on addressing me by my full name...just one of the things i love about him... :) )

Anurag: common yaar.....i think it doesnt apply to humans

Me: ...it does...

Anurag : ...coz materials cant change their inherent properties but we can, thanx to the one thing unique that we have - our WILL & RESOLVE.

Me: nope... with will n resolve u can malleate the external situation to suit ur core personality, v cnt change our core personality without damaging our existence

Anurag: disagree. damaging is the wrong word. u can always evolve into someone we all could be though at times we may not relaize it. Adversity could hone us it need not damage us or break us.

Me : well ur a dreamer n im more pragmatic

Anurag : may be... but i wish u more dreams

Me: oh cut the crap. very soon life will hit me. see this is hooke's law at work

Anurag : u know my views on hooke's law

Me : u just dnt know how the object will react to strain

Anurag: the only one who can make u yield i you yourself.

Me: true. i dnt deny it. but thts y i defined strain for u. strain= change in dimension i.e. the temporary or permanent increase or decrease in length &/or breadth &/or depth. these three dimensions can be seen in every person's character n this change is due to an external force acting on the body. if internal force of resistance is greater than external, well strain is temporary; if not, it becomes permanent n can be seen as the emtional scars on a person's psyhche.

Anurag : well said....

Me: so as hooke's law says - as the stress: increase, strain increases (dnt try to asertain whether the strain is temporary or permanent...thts a different ball game) till u reach the yielding point. beyond this, there's no way to predict hw the body will react - it may under go excessive strain even when subjected to very little stress or conversely, even excessive stress may yield very little strain since the body is now completely inealstic (akin to the person becoming emotionally dead)

Anurag : but Bhumika....life me if u look for justifying things u will always find some coz collection of Science, Arts, Philosohy, Medicine.....that human civilazition has gathered over years will always throw up something...but I know one thing.... before calling one;s life wrteched....we really need to see how wretched a life cud be....

growing up without limbs.....being aused as a child......losing your near-dear ones.....being physically violated...just think of how worse life cud be... and then look at urs and wonder...do u really need to damn your life or thank God for it

Me: nai yaar, apply ur logic here... only u are the parameter of hw 'wrethed' life is u can compare it only with urself, not others

Anurag : Nooooooooo, thats the papmered kid....Bhumika...who has lotsa toys but will throw tantrums if he cant get the one he fancies now. I thank God simply coz he has given me health. that gives me full freedom to chart my life the way I want. yeah in some instances...i may have to take tuff decisions.....but i can still do what i want but there are ppl who dont have thsi freedom - a man inprison for a crime he didnt commit....he is the one who shud think of reaching the break point...or a girl facing incest from those who shyud be her protectors...she should be scarred permanently...a man who lost hus hands or legs in an accident....he should worry of why life has been so selectively cruel against me

Me : ...here is whr i tell u leave it yaar...ok see - ur eg prove my point rather than urs!! my theory wasnt personal, it was made for people at large.

Anurag : No what u had was a law of physics....which u were trying to apply to life... but life is not science... but i agree we shud leave it coz being argumentative yields nothing. we are what we are and we dont change...for whatever one may say...unless we really wanna change ...hain naa

Me : Anu this will be a great blog. love u

Rudyard Kipling If

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

iv moved with kings n kept my common touch

iv been lied to yet not given into lieing

iv not let victory nor defeat affect me

iv filled every unforgiving minute wth sweat n blood of distant run

so whr is my earth n everything in it?

is it bcoz im a girl...i cnt be His son?