Is it normal to resign oneself to a life of idiocy?

I have come to the conclusion as of late that I am truly and exceedingly idiotic at times. In the past, I have attempted to cover this up, as I feel that I possess no redeeming qualities other than my intellect, but as time goes on, I find my supposedly superior intellect to be less and less reliable. In fact, I'm convinced that I'm quite dull, and instead of senselessly attempting to improve my knowledge so that I might continue to delude myself into thinking that I have something of even the most fleeting relevance to share with others, I have instead decided to resign myself to the fact that I am, if not average in my intellectual endowment, at least subaverage in those regards. I find the notion of embracing my own ineluctable stupidity to be almost liberating on some level; no longer shall I beat myself up for the many mistakes that I shall inevitably continue to make in my daily life, and I shall no longer be bound by the chains of expectations that others have set upon me. Rather than put forward some kind of facade and attempt to interact with others on an intellectual level that is clearly beyond my reach, I shall simply stay out of others' way and not set my sights too high. I will accept that I am an idiot, and when I have accepted that proposition, there is not a damn thing anyone can say to me that will matter. I am a free man now; my innate stupidity is one of a kind, and it would be a shame to hide it away from the rest of the world under the misguided notion that I would be able to meaningfully participate with others if I only had a brain.

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Comments ( 9 )
  • Jazyritz619

    Did you type this beside a lit candle as you were smoking a pipe?

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    • I typed it in my mother's basement while munching on a moldy Hot-Pocket.

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  • flyingnostalgia

    congratulations mate...your humbleness is admirable.

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  • thegypsysailor

    Bravo! Clap, clap, clap. Free, free, free at last!

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  • Short4Words

    Slow down there tin man. Maybe you're not as smart as you thought you were but you're probably just going through a rough patch.

    Depression can be a big factor in temporary lack of cognitive abilities.

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    • I think you mean scarecrow; the tin man needed a heart.

      I'm pretty sure I've been living a lie for some time; I wonder if the real me really is some kind of idiot, and if so, how can I get in touch with him? I'm lost and I feel like I've gotten so trapped by my own affectations that I can't distinguish between which parts of me are real and which parts I just assumed as part of an identity calculated to impress and foster communication.

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      • Short4Words

        You're definitely not stupid. You've shown insight and you have a good grasp on the english language. You also remembered the Oz reference correctly, kudos to you.

        I know what it's like to be an actor in life though.

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      • green_boogers

        Take a college class in Logic. In the end, the Scarecrow understood that the hypotenuse = SQRT(a^2 + b^2).

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  • Stand2260by

    Wow

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