My complicated relationship with Maths, Accounts, and Life!
Where do I even begin!
Since my childhood, I have always been a daydreamer - still a daydreamer.
Growing up as a silent kid with poor social skills and below-average in studies, even struggling in expressing my ideas, I often found excitement in daydreaming.
Sometimes I’ve imagined myself as a police officer in a high case with the most dangerous criminals. Sometimes I was a superhero with omnipresent powers.
Well, every hero has a weakness, and mine was… no.. is, Mathematics. Yes, Mathematics is my kryptonite, and my Maths teacher was my arch enemy. The interesting part was, my arch enemy changed appearance every year.
Similar to a video game, when the hero defeats the enemy, the game takes him to the next level where an even more powerful enemy will be waiting for him. Hence the hero must fight and defeat those powerful enemies and finally gets to the boss.
But in my life, the storyline was interestingly different.
Each year, my arch enemy demolishes me with all those algebra and trigonometry weapons, and when their shift is over, they’ll ‘pass’ me to their higher management. This continued for 10 years. Yes, I got failed, humiliated, punished, but never have I ever stood up to my enemy and tried to fight him.
Rather, my approach was like, ‘don’t train the untrainable’. I never had any interest in Maths, I am neither prideful nor guilty.
On the whole, Mathis is my evil ‘ex’
No matter wherever I go, she still stalks and taunts me often.
The best part for me is, I’m over my ‘ex’ but she is never over me, never will!
After graduating 10th standard, I’ve taken the right decision for which I’m proud of myself, till now.
Similar to every other Indian family, my family too benevolently forced me to take up engineering
But I had other plans!
Looking at my 10th marksheet, I analyzed what are my strongest areas, and what are my weakest. The weakest is obviously my evil ex, and my strongest are theory papers. Although I liked science, I hated Maths more. After turning down Maths and science, I choose Accounts as my career path.
Most of my circle said I'm choosing a comfort zone and I would surely fail and regret. But, I choose not to overfeed my mind with all those suggestions, and let me be the judge for my own decisions.
Fast forward 6 months, I scored the first rank in my class. Centum in Accounts, Commerce, and Economics.
For a kid who never ever got all-pass for the past 10 years, pinning the first rank badge on my shirt boosted my confidence.
Now, what motivated me to excel in studies after choosing the Accounts group was a short and personal story that will be better explained in future.
I enjoyed the 2 years being a prodigy in Accounts. I was the teacher’s favorite, class leader, and also popular among friends, for one reason - I could do Accounting well.
The love between myself and Accounts bloomed in those 2 years. Like an innocent love with no commitments. After getting into college, the love got to a serious stage. I enrolled in ICWA, after guidance from my uncle. Everything was fine, everything was wonderful, everything was fantastic. The balance sheet was perfectly ‘’balanced’
And after a while, after I landed my first job in an MNC, slowly the love started to fade.
I like accounts, but I couldn't see a career in which I would be satisfied. After resigning from the MNC job (Will explain in another blog) I even worked for a few months in an Auditor office as an accountant. I’ve done my work well, got appreciation from my seniors, and also my boss. Yet, the crack grew wider and wider.
After thinking a lot, and preparing myself for another great risky experiment, I quit my job as an accountant, and said final bye to my love for accounts.
We are still on good terms till now. Not like that tyrannical trygnometry trouble-maker
Just like everyone has their childhood crush. I too have one, no.. three
Since my childhood, Space has always fascinated me.
Often i look at the night sky decorated with stars and clouds and muse how big the universe is?
I wanted to be an Astronaut. I proclaim I would become an astronaut when I grow up, when I didn't even have any idea of how to become one.
Although I missed to take that turn in this life highway. I’m madly positive I will find myself between the earth and moon, before the grim reaper finds me.
Similar to my previous crush, I was equally infatuated with Archaeology. But, even before I tried to explore it, it was buried deeply.
For a guy who loves mystery, suspense, and thrill. Fascinated to become a detective is not a surprise. I even did two private investigations on my own at the age of 12 and succeeded. Yes, I found out who murdered my goldfish, and retrieved my magnetic watch which one of my cousins broke into pieces and disposed of.
Yes, these seem like petty tasks, but for a child of 12, I felt I'll be a good detective.
After I bid farewell to my accounting love, I took a break and paid my full attention to a new passion, which I wanted to do for a long time.
Pen a novel.
Although my financial and family commitments were ballooning day by day, I was 23 at that time and determined that would be the right age to take any risks.
For nearly a year I started to daydream and whatever I dreamed, I wrote it down. Thus born my debut novel EA-R-TH Age of NeOlwd.
I never hoped I would become a good writer, still I am not a good writer. But if you ask me what I'm good at, I'll proudly proclaim I'm a fantastic daydreamer.
God has blessed me abundantly to be creative. And now I realized my career has come full circle.
In childhood, I daydreamed a lot and wanted to become omnipresent, and God has listened to my 'want' and blessed me with a career on being omnipresent & creative.
Confused?
Every writer, author, novelist, storyteller, or whatever name my fellow daydreamers call themselves, I have the power to be omnipresent in the world I create.
Even though the world is fictional, I try to bring life through it with innovative ideas and compelling characters. And there, a new love bloomed, my love for writing.
During my 1 year of break, during my first draft of my debut novel, never have I been filled with soooo much satisfaction.
Every character I've sculptured, every chapter I've completed, gave me a satisfied sleep every night.
Now I'm addicted to it.
And will continue to be addicted to my love till I become a forgotten history.
And, what else do I say to my love life…??
Well, life is full of surprises….
Never stop dreaming… 💭
Since my childhood, I have always been a daydreamer - still a daydreamer.
Growing up as a silent kid with poor social skills and below-average in studies, even struggling in expressing my ideas, I often found excitement in daydreaming.
Sometimes I’ve imagined myself as a police officer in a high case with the most dangerous criminals. Sometimes I was a superhero with omnipresent powers.
Well, every hero has a weakness, and mine was… no.. is, Mathematics. Yes, Mathematics is my kryptonite, and my Maths teacher was my arch enemy. The interesting part was, my arch enemy changed appearance every year.
Similar to a video game, when the hero defeats the enemy, the game takes him to the next level where an even more powerful enemy will be waiting for him. Hence the hero must fight and defeat those powerful enemies and finally gets to the boss.
But in my life, the storyline was interestingly different.
Each year, my arch enemy demolishes me with all those algebra and trigonometry weapons, and when their shift is over, they’ll ‘pass’ me to their higher management. This continued for 10 years. Yes, I got failed, humiliated, punished, but never have I ever stood up to my enemy and tried to fight him.
Rather, my approach was like, ‘don’t train the untrainable’. I never had any interest in Maths, I am neither prideful nor guilty.
On the whole, Mathis is my evil ‘ex’
No matter wherever I go, she still stalks and taunts me often.
The best part for me is, I’m over my ‘ex’ but she is never over me, never will!
After graduating 10th standard, I’ve taken the right decision for which I’m proud of myself, till now.
Similar to every other Indian family, my family too benevolently forced me to take up engineering
But I had other plans!
Looking at my 10th marksheet, I analyzed what are my strongest areas, and what are my weakest. The weakest is obviously my evil ex, and my strongest are theory papers. Although I liked science, I hated Maths more. After turning down Maths and science, I choose Accounts as my career path.
Most of my circle said I'm choosing a comfort zone and I would surely fail and regret. But, I choose not to overfeed my mind with all those suggestions, and let me be the judge for my own decisions.
Fast forward 6 months, I scored the first rank in my class. Centum in Accounts, Commerce, and Economics.
For a kid who never ever got all-pass for the past 10 years, pinning the first rank badge on my shirt boosted my confidence.
Now, what motivated me to excel in studies after choosing the Accounts group was a short and personal story that will be better explained in future.
I enjoyed the 2 years being a prodigy in Accounts. I was the teacher’s favorite, class leader, and also popular among friends, for one reason - I could do Accounting well.
The love between myself and Accounts bloomed in those 2 years. Like an innocent love with no commitments. After getting into college, the love got to a serious stage. I enrolled in ICWA, after guidance from my uncle. Everything was fine, everything was wonderful, everything was fantastic. The balance sheet was perfectly ‘’balanced’
And after a while, after I landed my first job in an MNC, slowly the love started to fade.
I like accounts, but I couldn't see a career in which I would be satisfied. After resigning from the MNC job (Will explain in another blog) I even worked for a few months in an Auditor office as an accountant. I’ve done my work well, got appreciation from my seniors, and also my boss. Yet, the crack grew wider and wider.
After thinking a lot, and preparing myself for another great risky experiment, I quit my job as an accountant, and said final bye to my love for accounts.
We are still on good terms till now. Not like that tyrannical trygnometry trouble-maker
Just like everyone has their childhood crush. I too have one, no.. three
Since my childhood, Space has always fascinated me.
Often i look at the night sky decorated with stars and clouds and muse how big the universe is?
I wanted to be an Astronaut. I proclaim I would become an astronaut when I grow up, when I didn't even have any idea of how to become one.
Although I missed to take that turn in this life highway. I’m madly positive I will find myself between the earth and moon, before the grim reaper finds me.
Similar to my previous crush, I was equally infatuated with Archaeology. But, even before I tried to explore it, it was buried deeply.
For a guy who loves mystery, suspense, and thrill. Fascinated to become a detective is not a surprise. I even did two private investigations on my own at the age of 12 and succeeded. Yes, I found out who murdered my goldfish, and retrieved my magnetic watch which one of my cousins broke into pieces and disposed of.
Yes, these seem like petty tasks, but for a child of 12, I felt I'll be a good detective.
After I bid farewell to my accounting love, I took a break and paid my full attention to a new passion, which I wanted to do for a long time.
Pen a novel.
Although my financial and family commitments were ballooning day by day, I was 23 at that time and determined that would be the right age to take any risks.
For nearly a year I started to daydream and whatever I dreamed, I wrote it down. Thus born my debut novel EA-R-TH Age of NeOlwd.
I never hoped I would become a good writer, still I am not a good writer. But if you ask me what I'm good at, I'll proudly proclaim I'm a fantastic daydreamer.
God has blessed me abundantly to be creative. And now I realized my career has come full circle.
In childhood, I daydreamed a lot and wanted to become omnipresent, and God has listened to my 'want' and blessed me with a career on being omnipresent & creative.
Confused?
Every writer, author, novelist, storyteller, or whatever name my fellow daydreamers call themselves, I have the power to be omnipresent in the world I create.
Even though the world is fictional, I try to bring life through it with innovative ideas and compelling characters. And there, a new love bloomed, my love for writing.
During my 1 year of break, during my first draft of my debut novel, never have I been filled with soooo much satisfaction.
Every character I've sculptured, every chapter I've completed, gave me a satisfied sleep every night.
Now I'm addicted to it.
And will continue to be addicted to my love till I become a forgotten history.
And, what else do I say to my love life…??
Well, life is full of surprises….
Never stop dreaming… 💭
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