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There are times in my life that I could sense that something is declining, especially in numbers.

Take this analogy for example :

If we have only 10 balls, but for a full-length tennis tournament to run properly, we probably need more than that, let's say 500 balls at the very least.

So....what should we do?

Buy a hefty lots and lots and lots of tennis balls!!! And then pool it together, so it will reach the minimum number required.

Let's say, you don't know how much balls you bought, and you only want 500 balls in the basket so you can save the rest for later games.

In the basket, there are only 10 balls. If you add one more tennis ball into the basket, the total will be 11. When you add another, it will become 12 and so on. And as you are adding the balls, you're counting one by one.

At the end of the day, when you're confident that you've put in 490 balls, you count it back to make sure that the total is 500.

But, when counted, it seemed to be that the total is not 500 as needed.

Why is that?
Isn't it perplexing?

Maybe you lost count when you're adding the balls.
Or maybe you're adding 500 more balls instead of 490.
When recounting, perhaps you missed one or two.
Or even some balls may not fall into the basket as you're putting them in.

Probably it's just a weakness of us humans.

When we're adding something one by one, as they total up to a large amount, we tend to miss some of them out from our limited sight.

Then, the numbers decline unnoticed, until it is already too late for everything to revert back to normal.

Yea...until it's too late for everything