My Worst Fears
Life me jis cheez se bhagoge, wo saali jhakk maar ke tumhare peeche aayegi. Aur jis cheez ke peeche padhoge, wo tumse aur door chali jaayegi. I don’t really agree with the second one, because it just says that passion is useless. But I do believe in the first one. Everybody says, “Face your fears,” nobody says why. Because most of them don’t even know what they are trying to tell; they are just throwing words around. All my life, I tried steering clear of my worst fears: Maths, people, and being cringe (also lizards). And guess what, I ended up having to face every single one of them. Not because my plans tanked, well, true, but the universe has a funny way of functioning. I feared maths, but loved reading stories. I chose commerce without maths in class 11, just so I could somehow escape it. But guess what, it came masked under accounts, economics, and statistics. Also, when I decided to go for government exams, the weightage of maths was 25%. In the end, I ended up facing it. I worke...