Before providing details, I want to make it pellucid that my whole life can be divided into 3 phases. Surprisingly, the three numbers (1, 2, and 3) are part of the Fibonacci Sequence, which goes like this:
0 , 1 , 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, … and so on.
This is really a nice way of seeing how important 1, 2, and 3 are because they come immediately after digits 0 and 1 (used in computer technology and science).
Rod Pierce, the owner of “Math is fun” (https://www.mathsisfun.com/) has a nice take on the Fibonacci Sequence! He has created a great piece called Fibonacci Words (which I have modified slightly) as shown below:
“I
have
a poem
about a sequence
that will not stop growing
where each line has as many words as
the previous two lines combined, which sound really easy, but can so rapidly
grow out of control until I have no idea how I can continue to meet the needs of this Fibonacci thingy.”
The whole beauty of the Fibonacci Sequence is that one starts with 0 and 1. Then, by adding them, one gets another 1. Then, 1 + 1 gives 2, 1 + 2 gives 3, and this will go on ad infinitum.
In case you are wondering why I have dwelt so much on the Fibonacci Sequence, let me put forth some interesting pieces of information.
Firstly, it was not Fibonacci who found the sequence named after him, but Indian Mathematicians who knew about the pattern hundreds of years before him. Secondly, I believe that my life can be divided into 3 general phases, which are 13 years in Malaysia, 28 years in India and almost 28 years in the United States.
It is appropriate for me to quote Seneca, who said that life is divided into three parts: what was, what is, and shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful, and the past alone is certain. [“On The Shortness Of Life”, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger].