Math is pretty cool, if you ask me. Personally, I rather like watching a math teacher carefully go through all the steps in a proof, because it's kinda like seeing a magic trick happen.
I'm also kind of a freak, in that I like to go look for really complicated stuff until I'm way in over my head. I like to mess around with numbers, just to check for patterns that emerge, when, for instance, you do some kind of weird thing with even numbers. just to see if anything interesting comes out of it. Not the most glamorous hobby, for sure. Programming helps with this, a ton, because then you can check a bunch of cases at once without going through so much tedium.
That said, that doesn't actually make me good at maths. I'm still rubbish at Analytic geometry, and still have a long way to go before I've got 1337 sk!11s in math as a whole. But it's easily worth it, because it's easy to find cases in real life where a mathematical/logical approach helps. If you're looking for them, I guess.
But yeah, that's really just my opinion.