Beyond Numbers.

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So this is what ensued. I just had my Writing IELTS Training in the company. Sent to me were copies of texts I should be answering for an hour. Everyone else were chatting on how we should counter the set of materials given to us. But while I was drafting my answers, bafflements came in and there I was reminded of my youth where the definition of fear wasn’t about insecurities, being bullied or hurt but instead, my dread about Math.

Math has always been a horrendous thing to me. No! I never flunked in it. I never scored below 50%.THERE IS JUST SOMETHING VERY UNDESIRABLE ABOUT THIS SUBJECT! I hate it when my solving papers were jam packed with a very lengthy solution and my answer is nowhere near the multiple choices or how about being questioned like  how long is the circumference of a circle, compared to its radius? Can the diagonal of a square be written as a fraction? Mind-boggling!!!!!!

In fact, I struggle when dealing with money in big amounts too I prefer keeping my phone’s calculator open or let someone solve it for me without extracting too much from my brain cells. But for some weird reason, I love counting money anyway!

In college, I let my best buddy answer some of the remaining math problems I needed to answer while she’s done with hers. Haha! I sound like a Math freak!!!... Ironic isn’t it that I was even sent for an Inter-school Math competition way back in Elementary. To this day I still marvel the fact why I was selected by our school to be one of its contenders. But I didn’t wonder why I lost in that competition! Haha!

I am fearless! I was completely unafraid to put myself out there.  It didn’t matter if I was presenting a report to my class in school or giving a speech at graduation or just freely sharing my opinion with the world. But when dealing with numbers like these? My mind would throb, internal organs gets numb (Excuse me for this exaggeration!) and I shake on Math recitations!  Lol!

The moment I was given the chance to enter my 3^rd year in college where I do not need to deal with numbers, I took the opportunity and never looked back. It was the best moment of my life and decision I still never regret!

True it is that a human brain is amazing, it functions 24 hours for 365 days but to me right from the time I encountered nerve wracking digits, only then it stops.

Minutes… an hour passed, I came up with this composition 

and I decided to go through!  After that brain wracking activity,

I have come to appreciate that I did spend so much of my time trying to understand it. 

 So how did I value my enduring journey with Math?

"A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.  -- George Polya

Well, Math is all around.  The bills we pay, the coins we use, the shopping comparisons we make, the measurements we take all entails calculations and thinking about math. And oh! Even the universal word – LOVE – We even express it in digits! 1 4 3… But above all, I believe mathematics isn’t just about the knowledge. It’s about enjoying the thinking and not giving up! That there is still beauty on what has always been, for us, a tricky and uninteresting matter.

You know, we all became Mathematicians for the same reason: That in our Mathematics of life, it’s not about how effortless or how well did you stretched everything just to come up with precise equations but, it’s about coming up with a solution at the end of everything, and that we’re being reminded that there’s always a way in every circumstances! We push through solving our life’s equations for we believe even how long it may take we’ll still find an answer. It gives us every reason that every problem has solutions!

Embrace the current season of your life!

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