Before I even saw the Freewriters daily prompt, I had stumbled on a meme that oddly ties into it. I was going to post it as a snap on Peaksnaps, but after seeing the prompt, I figured, why not turn it into a blog post instead? After all, it felt like I was slowly skidding toward the writer’s block ditch (lol). The meme, which I’ll still post later, said, “me adding an example to a wrong answer,” and it instantly took me back to something both hilarious and a little tragic from my secondary school days.
I used to hate mathematics with every fiber of my being. Still do:). Well, it’s not because I didn’t try, but because the numbers and formulas seemed to have a secret agreement to just never make sense to me. I don’t think I ever scored an 8/10 in mathematics. It was that bad. So, there was this one time we were told to plot a graph, as a take home assignment, and a specific formula was required. That night while trying to work it out, I stared at it for so long, hoping divine intervention would strike, but when it didn’t, I did what any desperate student would do. I created my own formula.
Oh trust me, it looked smart as hell. I plotted that graph with confidence and a ruler so straight it could’ve won an award if looked at on surface level. But when the result came back, there was a bold red 0/10 staring right back at me.
It wasn’t funny then because I was put in detention for two hours after school as punishment. But now I think about it and laugh. I know the basics of mathematics but you see those ones called pythagoras theory, quadratic equations, and its likes? Count me out. I was more focused on literature and creative writing that I wrote my own stories but I just can’t find those manuscripts. It’s probably juvenile stuff but hey, I badly wanted to publish those.