“Good grades, good test scores…*nods head*, good kid!”

Those were the exact words uttered by the Principle of a school I was interviewing for. The memory of how he said it stuck with me because in that moment I realized intelligence (intellectuality really but many confuse it) was considered a quality that made the perception of any persons character overall better.I’ve found myself many times in situations where I used intellectual intelligence as a weapon to upset people, the earliest I remember was my year 7 teacher saying; “You’re lucky to have been born Matty you should feel special”, “special?” I asked, “Out of 500 million sperms, one managed to fertilize one of my mothers eggs.Woah! what are the odds?” (was a big Bill Hicks fan, props to him for that one), it wasn’t only back then when I went to Spain recently I was unlucky to get one of those hair dressers who starts giving you his opinions on whats wrong with the country and the government, it got to a point where I just snapped; “It’s a pity all the guys who REALLY know how to run the country are too busy trimming hair…”, rightfully enough he didn’t take it well and gave me a buzz cut I had to hide by wearing underwear on my head for the rest of the trip as I dislike caps and couldn’t find beanies in summer.

On the plane back it was no exception, a nice looking girl sitting in the seat on the opposite side of the aisle became quite friendly and asked; “That’s a cute unique accent, where are you from?”, a normal person would proceed to do small talk, not me…”I’m from a land where we never a finish sentence with a preposition =|”, I think she spat on my steak while I slept cause it tasted minty and she was chewing gum, oh and not to long ago I was invited to a barbeque, “I’d love to join your primitive tribe, as we stand around the burning fire sharing exciting trivial adventure stories, celebrating with a feast the recently caught prey”, I could go on and on.

I keep having to tell myself in those don’t-feel-like-socializing mood moments, “Matty you’re acting quite arrogant for something that was pushed face first out of a vagina” (still find that word funny, almost as giggle worthy as boob).

But why do we value others intelligence so much? does possessing intelligence make a person better in the judgment of good from bad? does it make anyone but themselves happier?
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