Numbers and Words

Math is easy to escape. If you hate math, then you simply don’t allow it into your life. You find a career that doesn’t involve much of it, take the bare necessity in college and high school, marry someone that knows how to calculate a restaurant tip and do taxes and bills. Refuse to do math. Refuse it and eventually it will refuse you too. You and math will go separate ways. It will find other people to solve for x. Math doesn’t need you. And hell, you don’t need it either. Screw math.

But words… words are impossible to escape. If you find yourself loathing words, you’re the one that’s screwed. You might spend high school and college writing essays, doing the three written questions on tests, writing speeches, stories, reports, and oratories. No matter your chosen profession, you’ll write. Even at art school, you’ll write. You have to write what your art is about. Scientist? You have to write titles for science projects. Accountant? Think you’ve escaped words and found comfort in your numbers? Nope, you still have to write your name down. No matter how hard you try, words are always there. You talk in words, you think in words. It doesn’t matter what language you speak, what dialect you use, or even if you hate words so much that you spell them all wrong and talk like Lil’ Wayne. They’re still words. And if you hate words and try to escape them, they will haunt you.