This is my collection of writings for the three hundred and sixty five day writing challenge - where one has to write something daily, every day, for one whole year, based on the prompts provided - as part of an exercise to improve creative writing...
Rather than talk about the philosophical and theological rationale of patterns in life, I have decided to take a liberty with the prompt and write about symmetry in nature (and this is ironically, a repetitive pattern of my writing for this challenge)
Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, "symmetry" has a more precise definition, that an object is invariant to any of various transformations; including reflection, rotation or scaling. Although these two meanings of "symmetry" can sometimes be told apart, they are related, so in this article they are discussed together.
Mathematical symmetry may be observed with respect to the passage of time; as a spatial relationship; through geometric transformations; through other kinds of functional transformations; and as an aspect of abstract objects, theoretic models, language, music and even knowledge itself.
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Symmetry abounds in nature, and examples can be found everywhere (there would people who would raise vehement objections to this statement, and whilst it is true that perfect symmetry does not exist, near perfect symmetry does exist in nature and greater the symmetry the greater the visual pleasure it gives (Again a debatable statement but I stick to it).
