After a short conversation today on the virtues of math, I think I finally came to conclusion as to why math hates me. A math major friend decided to argue that the reason mathematics was so fantastic was that it was absolute. There's only ever one answer to a problem and each problem is only black or white. That totally explains my issue with it in a nutshell!
The world is full of shades of grey. Reading Shakespeare or a comic book, you can take something slightly different away than everyone else who has ever read it. Depending on your mood when you read it, you may even come away with very different opinions from the last time you read it. The same goes for the world as a whole. It would be a very, very boring place if every action had only one possible reaction, or every choice had just a single outcome.
The inability to solve a math problem may have caused issues for me in school but now, I'm finally happy with it. If that inability opened my eyes to the wonder of devouring a great book in an afternoon, or appreciating varying opinions on a particular subject, then so be it. The way I see it, you can never really appreciate the full beauty of the world and your surroundings until you start to appreciate the shades of grey around you. Afterall, grey is the new black...
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