The bit with the guard calling you “madam”… that’s just charming. And the screensaver on the borrowed laptop… sublime. Your brother’s won the lottery again here, haha…
I’ve had the same thoughts as you—maths, what for? I mean, I won’t deny that multiplying, adding and subtracting are necessary and useful, because if you ever lose your calculator, you’ll be in serious trouble. But the rest—what’s the point? Such nonsense, especially since I forgot it all anyway. Will I need to take an astral journey to recall those complex formulas? 😂
Intelligence… mmmm… I believe we’re all part of a vast intelligence, and each of us is a component, a drop of water in the ocean, so to speak. This intelligence reveals itself in many ways, one of which might be being open to new ways of understanding the world.
A person who practises mindfulness and realises that, in the end, their thoughts do not truly belong to them is an intelligent being.
Being a good person is also a form of intelligence… I don’t know, you ask a lot of questions. You’re very intelligent.
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I mean, I try to not rely too heavily on my phone for every little sum or such, but do I really need to know the slope of a graph? What for? Doesn't seem to have much application in my life as a writer or as a yoga person. So that's that.
What a beautiful way to sum it up! I've never understood why so much of school tries to define intelligence in very rigid terms when there is so much fluidity and brilliance out there. There's people who can do things that I never could do, the way you do with pictures for instance. So much skill and talent and beauty, seems really sill to boil it down to a couple of formulas.
Back at you, lovely. :)