Herself
Today, I’m describing a person whom I’ve known so well over the years. I bet my life that no-one knows her better than I do. It was an ordinary day for her as she was attending her physics lectures. She felt that physics was the hardest subject in the world. Even the teacher teaching the subject seemed pretty difficult to understand. She used to wonder, was it the teacher or the subject she couldn’t understand. She later realized that none of them were to blame but herself physics wasn’t her cup of tea. As usual, the teacher was dictating the notes and the students were busy noting it down. She was alone in the first bench, as her best friend missed the classes. The teacher looked at her paper and suddenly burst into laughter. It was apparent to her that she had made a silly mistake. The teacher was kind enough to humiliate her in front of her friends my correcting her simple error. “The temperature is denoted by T, not ‘capital’ ‘t’” he said. Shameful thing is, she kept repeat...