As we grow up and get stuck following our busy schedule in our hand, we get very little or no time to spend with the people with whom we have had bagged loads of memories! Even basking in the most cherished memory all by oneself  on a Sunday evening, over a cup of coffee, with a smile on a face has become once in a blue moon event! Yet ever, if those cherished and parted friends come together to chat,they get busy putting out the memories they bagged in their bags and discuss them like there is no tomorrow. Memories are very disorganized! They never follow any order or sequence- created just like that and comes in front of anytime, leaving you with a smile or with a few beads of tears.
            I am a 'memory person'! Memories define me inside out! Being a person who is very much shaped by memories since childhood, I love sharing and listening to everyone whenever they come up with their stories!
          Recently while seeing my sister solving some tricky Maths problems, I remembered how much I used to panic and catch a fever in no time in the name of 'Maths'! I always had reasons which were excuses in reality, not to open my Maths book. After my ICSE (class 10), I was overjoyed that finally the day had come when I could get rid of the subject that had interested me the least and bored me to the core! Mathematics opened the floodgates of a number of memories which ONLY A MATHS HATER WILL UNDERSTAND!

1. You never feel like opening the book! DUUUUH! Isn't that very obvious?!

No matter how much you try or have tried, your other books bear a lot of wears and tears, but your Maths book is as new as ever even if you have opened it....OCCASIONALLY...RELUCTANTLY...WITH NO INTENTION TO STUDY...

2. Your Maths teacher sees the best blank face ever! 

The never brightening up faces in the maths 

teacher’s class makes your Maths teacher frustrated 

and blurt out concluding, “You are an idiot...You will 

be a rickshaw wala/ a chai wala/kaam bai when you 

grow up!”

3. The most logical things seem illogical to you.

       

   4.   %,-, <, >, +, sin, cos, tan, square roots, cube roots and everything  possible  seem to be going through several civil wars and they drag your brain into it!It's always the same! No matter how many or how few times you open your Maths book, the numbers, signs and symbols are always at war and even without any wish to be a part of them, you are dragged into it because you have an exam to pass! The Star Wars fight seems to be very mild in front of them!

   

    5.   No matter how much and how many punishments you get, you never seem to grow interest in the subject! Very likely those innocent puppy faces haven't worked no matter how much you have tried...You keep getting punishments and keep staying in the 'No improvement in Maths Zone'!

    6.  Though your interest rises at the beginning of every new chapter, but the interest doesn’t last for more than ten sums!....because the amateur level has taken a sudden sharp turn to the pro level after solving the first few easy sums and you lose interest in it!

   7.  You discover new talents while doing Maths or attending a Maths class! Your Maths copy gets filled up not with sums but with drawings - a flower in a pot with a few leaves hanging here and there or maybe some designs! And slowly you start turning from an amateur artist to a pro or maybe you remain an amateur all your life! You develop the art of talking with your friend without even opening your mouth by scribbling your words on paper,giving your teacher the impression that you are seriously taking down the sums your teacher is writing on the board!...Yet,sometimes those papers in which you have written down the whole conversation, which was supposed to be verbal, gets into the hand of your teacher -revealing your secrets and sometimes the cartoon of the teacher that you and your friend have made falls into his or her very hand!...And then you know what happened with you!

    8.  After writing your paper and after your result is out, you feel like gobbling your own paper! “BURP! YUMMMY!...I MEAN YAAAK!”

   9. You might be scoring or have scored good marks in other subjects but as soon as it comes to Maths, you go "Aaaaargh!", "Who the hell invented the subject?!"You just passed or haven’t passed in Maths but your other marks are shining brightly on your mark sheet! You are relieved even when have 'just passed' and thought that the darkness hovering over your Maths marks would be driven away by the brightness of the marks you have snatched in the other subjects. You hoped with all your heart that Maths won't be able to catch your parents' attention and even if it does,you would be easily forgiven. But your parents know very well about your serious illness in Maths and as you enter your house debating whether to tip-toe your way to your room or to enter boldly flaunting the marks you bagged in all the subjects but Maths; you find your Mom or Dad and sometimes both are there in the living room waiting for you, all set to give Maths the only spotlight!