intelligence is a curse

everyone lies to you when you're growing up. you will never do science fair projects in high school, happiness is not a right, and being smart isn't so great.

im not talking about getting good grades, i'm speaking of insight, depth, perception. its more like a curse than a blessing.

everyone i know of who are exceptionally intelligent, they are the most unhappy. the deepest, to be sure, but also the most likely to be also exceptionally depressed. my shallowest friends, they are the ones who are most content, the ones having the most "fun".

"if they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."

(with the exception of alex, now that i think of it, she's pretty happy and deep)