"It's the Alright Wall of China" September 25, 2011

'Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night'

- Edgar Allen Poe

I've never been upset by the stereotype that you can't be pretty and be smart.

I'm not going to be remembered because I was supermegafoxyawesomehot.

I'm going to be remembered because I did valuable things.

I don't know if you've noticed this, but no one is like,

'Wow, Madame Curie, how hot was she?'

Likewise, no one was like,

'Wow, Audrey Hepburn, she was a genius.'

The one stereotype that does bug me is that you can't be happy and be smart.

You're right,

Woolf, Keats, Newton, Lincoln, Van Gogh, Poe

Plenty of people who have changed our worlds and enriched them further have been mentally ill.

But don't think for a second that they wouldn't have changed that if they could've, or they would be any less important had they had the opportunity. 

Albert Einstein was a social retard.

There is no sense in denying it because it's true.
And it makes a lot of sense.
Children develop in four ways: intellectual, physical, emotional, and social.

And smarter kids tend to be social outcasts, and therefore fail to develop socially the way they develop emotionally and intellectually. 

So it makes sense for many geniuses to grow up troubled, right?

I suppose it does, but it doesn't make it necessary.

Lots of people think that only the stupid are unhappy.

But I think the truly smart people are the ones who see the genius in the world.

Today's rating: 6.4

Listening to: Nothing!

Currently reading: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Mostly Played iTunes Song: Tennessee- Theo Hilton, Toby Foster, and Ryan Woods
NaNoWriMo prewriting progress: Meh