Faced My Fears Head On.

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Welcome to my blog. It’s another week of exciting content ideas from the hive learners community. As usual, I hope this new week brings the peace and joy we all seek.

For this topic, I had to search deep and low to find some of my low times in this lifetime. Am one who seems not to have a lot of fears in life; or that is what I try to tell myself. For me, I think most of the time the only times of fear have been finding myself in a lot of shit and then lying my way out of it lol. It seems hard for me to remember a time when I was genuinely in some deep kind of shit which needed divine intervention to come out of.

But hmm, let’s see. I think I have one of those odd days.

So back in school, I used to love everything maths. But one thing about the aspect of maths that I loved so much was the core maths aspect; an aspect a lot of people seemed not to like. A lot of people didn’t like that it was not a formulae-oriented subject and basically having a free way of doing it and still arriving at the answer was a big problem to them.

Well, I on the other hand didn’t think that way. I used to think that having a lot of ways to get out of a problem was the ideal solution hence why I loved the core maths aspect of mathematics so much.

But here comes the twist; for someone who seemed to love core maths so much it was a big shock to me when I failed it in NOVDEC. In Ghana, NOVDEC is an exam senior high school graduates or senior high school students normally take to assess their readiness for the upcoming WASSCE exams. For people who have completed senior high and have problems with some people, they write it to better their grades for the university.

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Well, I took this exam when I was SHS 2 and even though I didn’t expect to get an A1 in core maths I was expecting much better than F9. Imagine spending almost half of your exam period reading maths and then failing it. Yeah, it happened to me and this was the start of my fear in core maths before we wrote our final exams.

The thought of failure always came to me each time I was studying core maths for my final exams. So what did I do? I enrolled in extra classes, did more and more studies in core and put in the hours so that I wouldn’t face the same situation again.

Well fast forward to the results I did marvellous in the paper I so feared I was gonna fail. With this one, it was a bitter pill which I chewed from the NOVDEC which made me sit up and study core maths more. To me, failing core maths was not an option since it was my favourite subject.

How have you been able to snuck out of your fears? Was it a difficult task or was smooth?