Go figure!

I am terrible at Math.
There- I've said it.
Yes- Have always been and say it without being embarassed, self conscious or feeling the least bit inferior.
Yours truly achieved just half of the full percent in ICSE board exams, and topped with English at 96%. My mother, after seeing the marksheet lamented if I'd just gotten ten more percent (a whole twenty marks) my grade would've been drastically better. My grandma wryly remarked that we had a Jane Austen in our midst so why even care about figures!
Pish-tosh! I said- thankful that I didn't have to study the beast anymore. I had no cruel intentions to suffer from nightmares (where eights and nines and sixes- the 'fat' numbers would march menacingly towards me, threatening to gobble me up), or worse, sleepless nights (I once lay awake the whole night faithfully parroting all the trigonometry theorems)!
Freed from thr shackles of High school Math, I advanced into BBA where each semester had some cousin of the tormentor- Calculus, Statistics.... I decided to show him who's the boss and aced my Statistics exam getting 98% in the exam.
Later on, at MICA, barely scraped through by the skin of my teeth in Research Methodology.
But the true test and (I hope, final torture) ensued when I was made Sales head. And for the first time in my life, I realised the language of talking numbers. I saw dipping sales because of low footfalls. I saw how YOY growth could be a positive while the ticket size was a negative. I understood marketing ROI (not that I didn't use it when I was handling only marketing) in the true sense of the word. I saw how a sales number could be reflected in so many placed impacting the outcome of a business.
From being a dunce, am now a dude(tte) at excel! And all, thanks to consumerism and the Sales function!!