I was reading something.... That made consider the idea of "ignorance is bliss".
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I was thinking, would I really give up my ability to think in order to feel and have an easier life? One in which I could blend in and be swept away by the trends and tides of society....
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I don't think a smart person, so to speak, .... would give up Smart for "Easy". To put it ironically.... no one, in their right mind, would choose feeling over thinking.
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But thus is the opinion of someone who thinks too much. I wonder sometimes, am I clever? Did I come to understand something better and quicker than other people did? Does that make me smart? I think I think too much and I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. I think.... I've come to ....submit to the idea that I don't have any self-confidence. What people mistake as kindness and sensitivity is simply a lack of self confidence. It's easier to be "confident" online. In reality I often worry about the words I say, since I can't monitor them like I can the words I write.....
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And... I don't think I'm that intelligent really... I think a lot, sort of like- thinking is what I do, but I don't think that thinking is necessarily really intellectual thinking, it's just thinking. Maybe...daydreaming a lot of the time.

But I try to make sense of things...
I try to make sense of senselessness so I suppose...
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I suppose it isn't intelligent thinking.
What is intelligence?
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According to most definitions it appears that intelligence is:
"The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge." American Heritage Dictionary (dictionary.com) On a simple, straightforward scale. This appears to be the primary definition.
The Capacity: Ability to receive, hold or absorb
To Acquire: To gain possession of
and apply
Knowledge: The state or fact of knowing.

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No, it doesn't appear I'm very intelligent. I have trouble absorbing- many times, then gaining possession of knowledge, then using that knowledge.

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Thus
Maybe I would be better off not thinking. However, I don't think that someone who can confidently say they think and that they think intelligently would regret thinking: Briefly if ever. Is there a difference between being smart and being curious? Is there a connection between being curious and being intelligent? It doesn't seem like it's a matter of being born that way, born smart or not. It's a matter of being curious and what one is curious about....

/>I'm curious about...... the world, the people of it and the underlining thoughts that seem to be the gears that direct humanity. Credit of every foot step is a machine and under which is a gear. A gear that is the thoughts, not the physical action- whose machine is the physical body.
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You see, I'm a senseless thinker. And I've always questioned how I've seen the world and toiled in it.

But for those who are sensible thinkers, who are intelligent, who retain information and use it accordingly...
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Isn't  it worse to be content with lies, than restless with truth?
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