"Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them."

- Charles Bukowski

If you are so smart, would you try to dumb yourself down to improve your quality of life?

Are you really so smart when you haven't figured out arguably the most important thing - how to live a happy life?

It seems to me that understanding certain things that other people don't understand or care to understand can make you feel alone.

And I don't mean alone as in not having people around you, you can have plenty of people around you and still feel alone.

It also doesn't seem like you need to be that intelligent to understand most things in this day and age, you just need to study logical fallacies and be a critical thinker.

It's easy to fall into the trap of "Oh, I'm so smart and that's why I'm depressed, the problem is with everyone else. I guess I'll just have to wait for everyone else to improve to be happy."

But are you though? Or are you just too comfortable being sad and lazy 🤔