Freewrite Prompt: Not Smart

in #freewrite5 years ago (edited)

"Not smart" is something we can learn to accept as we grow older but it is harder to accept as we grow older because our egocentric selves actually grow too as we grow older. It threatens the ego. Do we know it all? Certainly not. I am not meaning that we are stupid but we can accept that we all need to learn a lifetime. Sometimes it's not about the knowledge, sometimes it can be about intuitiveness, about being sensitive, about being empathetic or many other branches of learning.

Being smart is a good thing, but how smart is smart? Perhaps I'm smart in this but not in another aspect? Sometimes we make not smart comments which are unnecessary. Sometimes it can be we are not smart in handling a conversation.

I'm so sorry but when I think of this prompt of not smart, I remember a super not smart conversation I heard of. So not smart that me being there got dumbfounded and didn't know what to comment.

A friend went through something like the removal of a cyst and her another friend went through something similar. What happened was, the another friend who went through that said, "Look, two of us have gone through that and I think maybe you will go through the same too. " implying that since they are good friends. I can understand if it's a good thing, but it was a suffering process, that one wouldn't wish to go through.

I tried to make sure I heard that correctly! First of all, that was so not anticipated at all, and one friend just got done with a problem. Second of all, what a not smart thing to say at that moment.

Anyway, I also accept I'm not smart and I may make not smart comments in my not smart moments. That's all I can say. Sometimes when we have nothing better to say, it is better that we don't say anything. I guess not smart words will come through in not smart moments even for myself. I have many times regret my words too. So I'm not so smart too. Hahaha!

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Freewrite is a prompt writing initiated by @mariannewest and @improv to write a free-flow post without correcting or editing. I checked out her post to really get what it is before I jumped on the bandwagon. Basically, there is no right or wrong, just let the mind and fingers do their work, to find our creative self and let it come out of us.









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Sometimes the one smart thing to do is keep quiet if unsure of what to say. Best to pretend dumb than say the wrong thing and end up offending others.
Then you have those who just want to have the last say

I don't think that anyone is doing the smart thing all the time - we are human after all :)

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