The Distance Between Two Points.

Apparently I have a fascination with Old French words from the thirteenth century. Today it is the word distance whose French derivative came from the Latin distantia meaning "a standing apart".

Distance is interesting because it can be defined and understood in terms of time, space, and emotions. The latter is one that interests me, it is defined as: "indifference by personal withdrawal". This is the definition concerned with emotional distance. How do we measure emotional distance? If so many equations exist to define distance, why is it so difficult to understand?

We use distance to free ourselves from the things we don't want to feel.
We express indifference to take ourselves out of an equation.
What is an equation exactly?

An equation is a mathetmatical statement, in symbols, that two things are the same. Perhaps we are all just that: part of not one, but many, many life equations. Isn't the point to make an equation balance? Taking ourselves out of an equation can only create an imbalance...and we are then stuck with a missing factor, and the equation remains unsolved. It is so easy to distance ourselves from the things we are afraid of. . .factors that, if plugged into the equation, will make the answer incorrect. We are all afraid of making mistakes. But sometimes you have to plug in as many factors as possible, in spite of the fact that you may err. . .only then will you know what works at balancing the equation and what doesn't. We might even be pleasantly surprised at how simple balancing the equation can be.

Some equations are obvious, while others are meant to be solved.
But in the end, they are merely that:
equations, figures representing that two things are equal and represent each other.