Undo

After I was told that a sound knowledge of mathematics is absolutely essential for Salvation I decided too seek professional help. Having hitherto maintained a safe distance from anything that even involved addition and subtraction, I considered myself unfortunate. This was sheer bias and the playfield was not level. But nevertheless, as is my wont I braced myself for the challenge. They say the Regular Joe loves challenges. I disagree; I crave for them.

As was eventually discovered, it wasn’t easy. But I made rapid strides. I ingeniously discovered that one could use one's fingers for speedy calculation, which is stylishly referred to as 'Vedic Mathematics'. Needless to say that I was far ahead of my contemporaries in single digit addition. But subtraction proved to be a bit tricky since that required one to remember numbers in the reverse order too. But with all modesty, I would like to say that with the help of memory cards, memory plus and computers I overcame my shortcomings. Those days saw my emergence as adult prodigy.

But what ensued was unexpected. A change in my personality. My perspective. My language. The grand and poetic 'sans' that used to nonchalantly slip out of my tongue was replaced by the emphatic 'minus'. All qualitative descriptions were carefully weeded out and I developed a penchant to express everything in terms of numbers. Things* that previously elicited fantasies and spurred my imagination then reminded me of two successive neither positive nor negative numbers. Such was the profound impact, Mathematics had on my psyche.

After my inroads into mathematics, Physics was the next obvious choice.

With laurels tucked up my sleeve, You may wonder what I am up to these days. I am currently involved in correcting the mistakes of my previous birth.

E=mc2+1 is the correct relation. Apologies.


*The kinky side of The Regular Joe has been revealed here.