Special Numbers

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one, but the loneliest number is the number one.

One is a great number. It’s not like the other ones, although maybe I should consider rephrasing that. The thing about one is that it’s the foundation of every other number. Without one, you can’t have two or three or four.

There’s something special about two, too.

Two is the way you get to symmetry, or to a mirror, or to a reflection. It’s the nucleus of the idea that there can be more than one thing, the lowest whole number above one. It shouts to the world that you don’t have to be one; you can be other numbers too.

Three is special, too! Ever see a trilogy? You get a nice introduction, a middle, and then an end. All three of these phases of a play or movie (or book series, or whatever) are interesting and important components. While you can have a “yes and no” with the number two, you need three to have anything with a middle, not just a beginning and an end.

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