A little for something for people who are not good at math, its okay you don't have to be

Now my encounter with anxiety was because of a subject, I think most of you can figure out that it was Math because let's be honest math is not exactly friendly towards students. So my problem was that I was trying my best yet I couldn’t score well and that made me very anxious and I kept thinking about it till I snapped (figuratively obviously), so I kept thinking over and over again and I kept asking myself just one question-“What went wrong?”. And I think the fact that I couldn’t find an answer to this question made me all

the more anxious, not realizing that it’s going to affect my mental and physical health adversely. So I am not exaggerating when I say getting up every morning and starting a new day was like a battle for me, a battle that I only I could fight and eventually I did. I think the main problem with my case was the fact that I was submerged in the thought that I am good for nothing and over a period of time that thought became so rigid that I stopped doing things that I am actually good at. I still vividly remember that except boards and pre-boards, a day before every math exam I used to be sitting with an RD Sharma and tears rolling down my cheeks, as crazy and stupid as it sounds math has always been one of my pet peeves and I am pretty sure it always will be. So honestly I am completely fine with that because not everyone can have a knack for

numbers and that most definitely doesn’t make you any less than someone who is brilliant at it. And tell me something that why people who are good at math and not good at other subjects make a big deal out of it, maybe because that’s something that we have been told our whole lives that math is very important. But trust me it’s not unless you want to do something involving that subject majorly, so it’s very important to come to terms with your flaws whether you like it or not because that’s what went wrong with me I was trying to be good at something I didn’t understand that well. So embrace certain flaws the way they are, because trust me while you’ll be doing that you’re going to realize your greatest strengths.

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Writer: Kaashwini Dagar

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