{"id":13349,"date":"2026-07-22T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:30:47","slug":"32-stories-of-people-realizing-they-were-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13349","title":{"rendered":"32 Stories Of People Realizing They Were The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<h3 class=\"subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title  \">\n<p>      <span class=\"subbuzz__number\">1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"js-subbuzz__title-text\">&#8220;Basically in HS we had this maths teacher. She wasn&#8217;t too good at handling rowdy HS kids, and everybody made fun of her in various ways. It could be really cruel, and I imagine it&#8217;s one of the reasons why she was such a quiet, nervous teacher. Anyway, because all my friends were doing it, and because I hated school and most of my teachers, I took to making fun of her behind her back just like everyone else, and generally being a rude little brat in class. Now what makes this awful is that, around my final years of secondary school, this teacher had the heart to take me in for hour-long study sessions after school to help me with increasingly difficult maths. If memory serves, this was mandatory for not doing homework, which is how I wound up going.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;And I wasn&#8217;t exactly thrilled at the time, but now I realize that this teacher was really just trying to get me acquainted with maths, as she would with any other student, in spite of how rude I was and how easily she could have just given up and said &#8220;Fuck it, this little jerk doesn&#8217;t want to learn&#8221;. But the horrible thing was, even after she started teaching me after class, and even after I started to appreciate her efforts towards the end of my year, I\u00a0<i>still<\/i>\u00a0gave in to peer pressure and made fun of her behind her back.\u00a0\u00a0I didn&#8217;t have the balls to tell my friends what I really thought, or to openly acknowledge that I could be very wrong about people.\u00a0These days, I&#8217;m pursuing a career that often involves programming and maths, and in addition to the fact that I find maths more and more useful each year, I&#8217;m also really starting to see how fascinating and elegant it is. 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