My Pure Love For Math

Mathematics used to be called Arithmetic. I was the last one to know they had renamed it. I was in sixth grade, and furious when I discovered no one had told me. Addition. Okay. No problem. Subtraction. A bit trickier, more of a stretch, but doable. Multiplication. For some reason, I adored it! And word problems. Oh ,yes, more please! Loved them. Division. Not so excited; they took too long and remainders seemed dumb. Pre-algebra. X plus three equals 5. Okay, that one’s easy but then you add all those parenthesis and more and more letters, and it gets crazy. Geometry was a foreign language I simply did not want to ever see again. I did not understand any of it, and would like to never speak of it again. Statistics. I had to pass it to graduate with my degree. Just choke me now. And choke me hard enough that I do not have to do it tomorrow. I knew I would never use it, and guess what? I never have.