I used to think I was very smart. I don’t know why I thought this. Wait, yes I do. I was in college (at San Diego State, practically the Ivy League right there) and those were the days when I was young and stupid and making bad decisions. So of course I thought I was so very smart.
I’ve realized in recent years, however, that I’m not as smart as I thought I was.
I do know a little bit about a lot of different topics, which I attribute to crossword puzzles, but the fact that I know Edo was a period in Japanese history doesn’t mean I can carry on a conversation about Japanese history.
(A note about crossword puzzles. People think I’m smart because I do crossword puzzles. Dude. You don’t have to be smart to do crossword puzzles, you just have to have a good memory. The same damn answers appear in different puzzles all the time: Edo, obi (Japanese sash) (there are a lot of Japanese clues, apparently), salsa, Emmy, what else Dad?)
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. I used to think I was smart but I turned out not to be.
When I was in college, I thought I was so smart, maybe I’d parlay my smartness into being a lawyer. So, I thought about going to law school. A fleeting thought, really, because I managed to graduate college without ever really reading a book (how? See above re: San Diego State) and I hear there’s a lot of reading in law school. That would not have worked for me.
I don’t really have a point here, except that I’m really good at pretending to be smart. (Which, hey, may very well make me smart after all! Fake it till you make it and all that jazz.)
Yeah, well you know what? You are SMART and don’t you under-value that fact! I’m smart too and I don’t have a lot of the “Other” credentials that “make you smart.” I’m just… fuckin’ smart and so are you.
Don’t you DARE start that I’m not this, I’m not that bullshit here sister-girlfriend-daughter stuff.
You are smart. You’re the SMARTEST person in the room – AND the funniest – AND that combination my dear IS THE WINNER!
xoxoxo – Glams
haha I think that admitting you don’t know things makes you smarter than all those pretentious peeps that think they know it all.
If you’re not smart, I’m just a plain idiot! : ) Alas, ignorance is bliss! Jajaja!
Hahaha! I shall always think of SDSU as StdSU. I’m sorry. I cannot stop myself.
Me, too, me, too! People think I’m smart because I have a lot of degrees and I have a big vocabulary. Um. Apparently people don’t remember that a LOT of stupid people have lots of degrees (well, you work in politics, you know!). And my vocabulary? Helps when I read, but not when I speak. I… suck at speaking. š FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT! (We should TOTALLY start a band with that name!)