File this under the abstract but one of the best and one of the worst gifts that I’ve received is a higher than average level of intelligence. It doesn’t make me any better than anyone else as I struggle with things like feeling like an outsider in this world as I tend to over analyze things perhaps a little too much and look for ways to do things better. Often times, whatever the status quo is just doesn’t make sense and then I try to find out why it seems out of order. It’s a real predicament to find one’s self in.

So while being smart is a gift it is also looked down upon by many as we all like to believe that we are all equal. We all have our own special talents and that is what makes us unique from one another. Some people like gather a whole bunch of degrees and letters after their names as to prove their intelligence but somehow it just doesn’t seem right and hardly a good metric. While the movie was very exaggerated with the solving of the complex equations, my life seems a lot like Good Will Hunting and for the record I once did work for a while as a custodian for a school district.

I don’t spend my time solving complex equations, in fact, a lot of times, when I see things like that, all I see is a bunch of random symbols and have no idea of what someone is trying to prove. No, for me, I look for the truth about this world we live in and it’s getting more difficult every day to decipher what is real and what is not.