High school physics class taught me that one is the inverse of the other. But often in life, it's difficult to find anything that's the exact opposite of something.
Do I need to have answers/reasons to the stuff that I do? I know I want to. But do I have to provide them for others to know? The answer is not always. I don't want to be always the good guy providing a nice evading reply even when I don't feel like it. It just takes too much effort... sometimes. Is that one of my mood swings?... I think so.
Having just read something about Humane/Duck Interfaces on Martin's blog, it set me thinking further... quite nonsensically actually. Is my wide variety of behaviours a case of a Duck Interface? where people usually makes use of one of several interface but not knowing of its other implementations? This is certainly a Nonsense Interface.
Sometimes, I have to trust my own instinct not to think further than temptations have me to. Whether are there really opposites to be found, it must not matter that much. And so I gather that if there are really opposites, let it be and not let me question its existence nor acknowledge it. Frequency and wavelengths, unless I'm a scientist who needs to be precise with my wordings, it doesn't matter in which manner I use them in daily use.
So the statement "Are we on the same frequency?" and "Are we on thinking on the same wavelength?" means the same.
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