"I want him like sin."  jazzy2002
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Quoted by anonymous source: I've come to see you as someone of brilliance. Makes me think in several tangents. How did this person come to that conclusion with very simple conversations, but even more importantly to me why did I not want it to be a compliment? Shouldn't people in general be striving for brilliance or above average intelligence. Why would I not want to strive to maintain a personna of above average intelligence?
Retrospective Thought:
Throughout elementary education, I was always in high honors, I was always in the "special" programs, I even attended summer school for gifted children (don't do that to your kids please). In high school I was on the sports teams, I participated in extracurricular programs and I even began college courses my junior year of high school. But I (big emphasis on this word of I), still never defined these accomplishments as brilliance. They were just average, above average things that I had done. And why did I decide not to do them anymore? I have several excuses, but it really wasn't the meat of my decision to leave them behind. Plain and simple, they became perpetually boring. I had a talent for art, and a beautiful talent at that...left behind. I had a talent for prose, especially for epic fiction...left behind. I had a talent for the crafts, anything but sewing, primarily bead work...left behind.
I will tell you though, the one thing that I have found above all else that has not fallen into the trap of perpetual boredom and my answer to brilliance....people. Each and every personality I come across allows me to delve into an untouched mind, philosophy and many times new perspective. Each one unique, each one..brilliant in it's own right. There is nothing perpetual about it. So, no, I am not above average to anyone else. I am no more brilliant than anyone else. It really is just a matter of what perspective we take and how we define brilliance. | |
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Defining Brilliance Is In the Eye of the Beholder: Retrospective
