Whenever a lecture on random signal analysis goes on in the class, the professor in our college exclaims loudly, “a coin is tossed in the air five times, find the probability that a head comes?” I scribble the answer on my notebook and I patiently waited for others to finish. As all of us in the class are not the same beads of a chain, I took my time analyzing a one rupee new coin fallen from someone’s pocket near my bench. The coin had two sides, a head and a tail. It was on head and tail that my friends were working while I was seeing the coin and thinking, ‘Can the head and tail be interchanged?’
Head tail, tail head represents the two contrasting facets of life. They represent a wide aura of things around us which cannot be explained. One such thing that can aptly be represented through a coin is the vast difference between the rich and poor. The rich enjoy a happy life while those of poor, it goes on dragging them into the deep hollow pit running till the core of earth. They are present on the same coin but still have a contrasting connection between them.
The coin rules our life. What happens if there was only head present on the coin and not tails? How would the cricket matches proceed? It should not proceed in the way that we used to in our childhood like picking up ‘Gutkha’ packet and flipping it in air to decide who will bat first. It looks like our playground was full of ‘Gutkha’ packets than coins which we rarely possessed while playing. A coin it looked like was valuable but if it was available without a tail. Would it be appreciated in market? A coin without a tail is like a person without a name. The head and tail have to exist in order to run this world or else what will happen is that only good characters exist or only evil characters exist.
The good and evil have to exist? But why? The answer may never come out but when we flip a coin, most of times good wins. Thus a coin decides our fate. Fate is one thing which can catapult us to glory or to doomsday. Fate has its own consequences and whether it affects us or not is decided by time and not by us.
Does a coin decide luck? May be or maybe not. Luck is one thing that I hear many people exclaim loudly whenever they get out of an exam hall. Will luck favor the outcome? I can’t say but a coin can decide whether your luck overrules your hard work.
The next thing I hear is from our professor is, “what is probability that two heads will come? And the story about coin goes on..
