by ♥ vibrissae » Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:22 pm
this isn't anything serious, i just need to get it off my chest.
i'm just so confused and frustrated with myself. i used to be able to come up with answers within seconds, almost instantly, for complex math equations. i KNEW how to explain myself and KNEW how to impress my teacher. i was the academic kid, the competitive one who always knew what she was talking about.
that's all gone now, and it's one of the most hopeless feelings i've ever felt. there was this complex emotion that i used to feel during math, i'm not sure if there's a name for it but it felt a little something like confidence and just... knowledge. cleverness. i remember it distinctly, i know it existed!
however, i no longer feel anything like that anymore. i can no longer do those same mathematical equations like i used to, instead of that lovely buzz that i used to have, my mind just goes blank. i have to THINK with words, it's so slow and most of the time doesn't translate properly when i'm asked to explain my answer. to make matters worse, i just don't seem to have the same rationality anymore? i feel like confidence was a factor of it, i literally second guessed whether or not 7 x 5 equaled 35 yesterday. in front of my teacher. wanna know what's worse? i humiliated my classmate as well today. poor kid couldn't unmute himself because he's sick, so i had to present our math debate and it was mortifying. i was not prepared, how do you debate in math class?? i hate online school, and it's my fault that it's this bad. i should be more confident. i keep telling myself that, but i don't know these people. i'm trying to force it. to put it into perspective, i'm much friendlier with my teachers than my classmates.
i KNOW that they consider me their dumb new classmate. they haven't said anything, but who wouldn't? my responses have "uh, um" every 3 words and i constantly apologise. it's humiliating.
what happened to me? where did i go? did i leave a piece of me at my old school?