12-30-2017, 03:45 AM
Quote: We have a saying about kids in my family: "We don't need no stinkin' geniuses." It's rare, IME, to find a happy one.
that´s quite a heavy saying, ellajam. is that used to talk about kids or said to kids?
thinking about it i strayed away while ignoring the valid point (teaching people not to gloat, at least that´s how i understood it)
to feel unneeded and stinkin´ could contribute to being unhappy.
this "stinkin´" seems used a bit like in "stinkin´rich", it could be describing both sides of competitive thinking.
are there statistics showing that intelligence is somehow linked to unhappiness?
happiness is just a state of being, though some have a harder time being happy than others.. and hard to define,too.
you can´t be happy all the time except if drugged or brainwashed. but maybe that´s just my subjective cynic view.
at times being unhappy is presented like a failure. people react appalled if you don´t answer the question "how are you" with "great".
but it´s not a failure, it needs to be expressed and shared, like in this forum for example. why are there people who read depressing poems at all if there isn´t some value in that?
and about genious, how to define that anyway and more importantly what for ?
intelligence is fluidly graduated and can´t really be measured except as an approximation in those mostly mathematical-logical tests. there´s also genious creating music, lyrics, having a talent for movement or empathic intelligence... maybe sometimes genious is more like inspiration - it can happen to anyone.
ok.. everyone is getting ready for sylvester and new year and this is a little inappropriate at this time of the year but it seems i have a knack for being inappropriate : )
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