Saturday, August 27, 2011
From the naively cute perception of the world when I was a kid, to the indifferent one, with a tinge of sadness, in my teens, to the current state of utter confusion in my twenty (NOT twenties...yet), adults have always tossed their hope unto me with this particular statement:
[You're smart and you ought to be successful when you grow up! Work hard!]
Although sometimes, some would leave out the front part regarding my intelligence (possibly out of jealousy, heh), the idea that it is imperative for me to be successful, is always there. It's as if, it's my destiny to be a "Successer".
It is as if, I am The Chosen One.
.....Well, of course, except the fact that everyone else was the chosen one too. It's like everyone had their very own digimon, instead of just the 7 of them.
However, the only problem is that, I'm not quite sure of what this little thing called Success means. Also, the part where they've mentioned that I'm smart? I'm also not quite sure of what that means either. You know it's not as clear as saying that I'm the last Ancient/Cetra left on this earth or that I'm related, by blood, with the first Vongola boss. It's this vague notion of smartness, which is supposed to lead me to this even vague-erer idea of success.
"Fuck yeah! C'mon now Smart, we're totally gonna pwn the world and become a Successist! Wooo!"
See? I'm confused.
And ofcourse, these are just the confusions I have that I am actually able to articulate.
Success
Is achieving an annual global peace day, like what Jeremy Gilley has been trying to do, a success?
Is winning two Nobel prizes, like Maria Curie a success?
Is being a famous/infamous person, where your fame or notoriety can withstand the corrosion of time like CaoCao and Thomas Jefferson a success?
Is trying to inspire students to make a difference in their lives, one class by one class, year after year, a success?
Is being the person with the longest lifespan a success?
Is having the humility to apologise for the oil spill a success?
Is earning 2.7m annually in order to serve the people a success?
Is being a wealthy person and carve "HAMAD" into an island near Abu Dhabi, like Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan, a success?
Intelligence
What do you think intelligence consists of? Is it whatever the IQ tests tries to test?
If your answer is yes, that IQ score = intelligence (it's called Intelligence Quotient ffs), then would it bother you that Christopher Langan, with an IQ of 200+, hasn't already ruled the world? Or would you take comfort in that fact?
If your answer is no, then why does everyone give so much of a shit about IQ scores?
According to Howard Gardner, in which I'm more inclined to believe, there are 8 components to it:
Logical
Linguistic
Spatial
Musical
Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Existential
This post is not intended to be some kind of essay with a nice, concluding ending. It's more of like a container (of infinite volume, fortunately) used to store my growing amounts of confusion I have about this world. Other confusions I might wana add are:
- Why are there some of my ex-classmates, ex-schoolmates, perfectly normal looking friends I've met in the past, doing Multi-Level Marketing these days?
- Why do the whole world actually calmly acknowledge this idea called "Politics" as if it's some kind of run-of-the-mill idea like Art, Religion or cuteness?
- Why do parents, the media and the school (the whole fking society really) think that brainwashing kids with utopian stories is the best way to raise them? Like you expect them to be cute, naive creatures and perhaps staying that way for a while, but yet you expect them to grow up to become a mature, and preferably scheming, person who can maneuver and survive in the so-called
adult world also. Whatever that means.
There are things that we know we don't know
and things that we don't know we don't know
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