I think that this is very interesting idea. Actually I don't think that intellectual giftedness is what advances our civilization - i think love is what does it!
Love of learning, love of family, love of our neighbors, love of acheivement, love of being in history books, love of our destiny.
I was referring to people like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, but as I read your reply I started to think differently. I think there's a candle in all of use. An unborn star. I feel, many people who have achieved great things, like the Founding Fathers, Ceasar, Stalin, JFK etc. had their candle lit. They illuminated our universe and our history was changed forever. Bad or good deeds, history teaches us what is right or wrong by the use of consequenses. I'm not saying that bad leaders who killed many peoples were good, but I'm saying that their actions are people shaping ones. It is like a burning soul.
A book I love about this is 'Learning Outside the Lines.' Wow!
I need to find this book somewhere, I will ask my parents if I can buy it with their card on the internet ^^ (It didn't show up in our library.)
Anyway - I think you are very insightful to realize that writing is a way to know what is on your mind, and I hope that you continue to write to help you think. I also think about things from so many perspectives, seemingly all at once, that if I don't talk or write to someone who I care about, I would never know what I believed at all!
Love and More Love,
Grinity
Thank you, Grinity. Your insight is extreamly helpful. It really moved my heart when I first read your reply, I seem to find home with people who I am alike.
I don't want to be invasive, but could you tell me how you went through your early adulthood? Nothing intimate of course, but I guess you understod that.
You see, when people is around 18 here, they will go out and drink.. And I really just feel like not to. I tried it once, but I didn't really get drunk, even though drinking fair amounts. No, it's not necesarry to discuss that. At least it feel horribly inappropiate in a forum where people are talking about their much younger children.
Another funny thing is that I got along with much older people. I get perfectly along with my brother who's 9 years older than me and his friends.
And of course, I am socially challenged.. So I've always thought about getting a girlfriend (I'm super sensitive about this.) but these days I don't think I have the time! I'm afraid I'm going to fall off track if I lose focus.. I really just want someone that understand me.
I'm revealing my life because I feel safe... I think people feel safe with people who are foreign... Actually quite funny, I was on a bus in Orlando, Floride last christmas, and some american ladies just started to converse, and a few moments later they was revealing their hardships with overweight sisters and their lives.
Me and my family was like 'keep it to yourself', because that's how things work here we live. But now I see that it's healthy to get things out...
I should do this with a psychologist, but I don't know where to find one
I don't even think a psycologist would understand, or respect me the way you do... I'm sorry I'm not giving you money for what you're doing. You deserve it, you're helping countless of lives Grinity :P
Even though, If you're like me, then you're probably just happy to help the community. If I could help anyone, I would do so as well!
Thank You,
Tommy
