Why I Don't Like Math

Math makes my eyes and head hurt. There are just too many numbers, and too much counting, and adding, subtracting, et cetera. Whenever I finish counting something and go to write it down or remember it and do the next thing, I just forget what it is. Then I do it again. And I keep doing that until I finally manage to keep that in my head at the same time as whatever other parts of the problem, I just get confused. And once I finally manage to do all that confusing, eye-and-head-hurting work, and solve the problem, it is often wrong. And it is also boring to me. And often when text bores me, my mind wanders, and I read it without taking anything in, or committing anything to memory. Same thing happens with math. I can spend many long minutes blankly reading a math problem. And sometimes, you have one of those problems with a box or other shape made up of smaller boxes, and you need to calculate the area. But in order to do that, you have to count a lot of those tiny boxes. And that is hard for me. Around five boxes in, sometimes sooner, I will have no idea what I have counted and what I have not. Because they all look the same and there are so many of them. So when I eventually count up all the lengths, and do the math, and find the area, I am often off by a few boxes in the end. And I have to do it all again. Just thinking of it makes my mind cringe, if minds could cringe. Blargh. By the time I need to do math for things like taxes (my job won't really require much math, hopefully), smartphones will be able to solve math by you simply aiming the phone's camera at the problem. And I think some phones being made can already do that. At one point in time, a good few grades back, I tried to trick myself into thinking that I loved math. And it sorta worked for a bit. But nothing can last forever, right? I just don't have a mind made for math. I hope that my math teacher doesn't take my lack of work as insulting, or rude. I have nothing against the teacher, nor do I think math is stupid, it's just that it hurts to do math. But I hope to make up for my inability in math with my capability and talent in writing. And so far, that is working pretty well. I can (I am pretty sure) get credit for this blog, and even for my short stories! And when you get extra credit for doing what you do best, and you do what you do best a lot, then you've got something going for you. I just hope I can keep this up in high school. I will talk more about my writing career and plans for it in another post.