Hesitant to write this one. Not because this is extremely vulnerable material, (I’m not desperate enough to start burning that fuel, sorry my 3 followers) but because you call yourself “stupid” and suddenly just because you have a public history of having self hate issues everyone goes crazy! You say poopco-
This is not a self deprecation post. I know what it feels like when I’m actually insulting myself. I promise.
I am stupid. And that’s awesome.
Some Greek philosopher said that true intelligence is understanding what you don’t know. I don’t know what I don’t know hence why I don’t know it. I think that philosopher was stupid or something.
Jokes aside: I live my life with 2 tenants:
I do not know everything so don’t act like I do.
Nevermind it’s just one tenant. Also jokes where not left to the side. Maybe its time to get to the thesis.
I don’t know a lot of things. I know this. What are you when you don’t know something? By definition: stupid. At that thing. Yeah yeah stupid has a negative connotation and is an insult but my brain doesn’t use it as such. Except when I’m talking about one friend in particular. You know who you are. You aren’t even reading this. Hah, stupid.
I don’t know man. That’s the whole point. I like things that are stupid. This whole me posting to substack thing is stupid, I get nothing out of it and overshare on my social platform. But it’s also awesome. I am doing something for the sake of itself and other people can read my stuff and maybe relate or even better: think I am a genius writer of our generation and give me a big contract.
I think I was being stupid and thought I could write something better than the stupid Greek philosopher. He was right that’s basically what I was trying to write. I try (huge focus on try) to live life with the assumption that I will make mistakes, as we all do, because I do not know something. I think this is better than trying to remedy a mistake afterward with “well now you know!”, because you are prepping yourself with the idea that you could fail. Not that you are going to, but that you could. And that if you do, that’s fine because that is what you are supposed to do.
The main difference between my retelling of the stupid Greek proverb is that I don’t include the “that’s what intelligence is” part. The reason has to do with ego, don’t do something because you think it’ll make you more intelligent than other people and yada yada, but I also don’t include because. Say it with me now.
I am not intelligent. I am stupid. And that’s the POINT.
If you read this and thought to yourself “I think he’s still just being mean to himself” I get it man. I’m the least confident in posting this than any of my other 3 posts. I hope it makes sense. Then again, I am stupid. And learning. How to write. That’s what this is. Ok awesome.