i recently watched a biography on will smith. WHO IN THIS WORLD CANNOT LOVE WILL SMITH? bring me their heads on a platter please. i even love his wife, jada. she’s beautiful, passionate, kicky, and honest. a firecracker i’d even say. (as well, she and tupac were tight.)
watching the biography on will just made me love him that much more. he’s a genuine person, raised well by good parents who were old school. and, he’s just a good boy through and through. that is sexy all by itself.
james avery was a part of the biography show and added this quote that made me stop and rewind, and then write it down. he was speaking of will, “truly bright people recognize when they don’t know something“.
that quote is the reason behind this post.
i’m not certain how it came to be that i thought i had to be “better than” other people in the world. it used to be a part of my daily thinking. i know that my mother was quite direct in her quest to teach her daughters how to speak correct english whilst being raised in the south. i am thankful for this as an adult, but i think i got in my head that if i spoke better english, i was better than other people.
when i heard “ego-maniac with an inferiority complex” i identified with that immediately.
having lived in other areas, in addition to doing a lot of traveling i learned that people are basically the same all over. i’ve heard from more men than i can count that women in the south are the prettiest women in the united states. (personally, i disagree due to my rating system being one of that comes from a person’s mind rather than what they can have sewn on, implanted or colored.)
(i would also point out that women in the south tend to wear makeup much more than their northern counterparts. since becoming a mom, i rarely wear makeup due to the melting off factor. i’m not against makeup but i can be seen without it. some say heavy makeup wearers are trying to disguise themselves so you won’t see their true inner ugliness.)
there are a few people that are affiliated with me that fully believe i am stupid b/c i am from the south, and due to my southern accent. does that hurt my feelings? yes, it does. do i dwell on it? no, i do not.
more than anything it makes me sad that people are not judged more on who they are, rather than how they speak. (i am guilty of the same. i cringe when i hear southern accents in movies, mainly b/c they are always made to look like idiots, and the accents are mostly always over-done. STOP THAT MOVIE MAKERS.)
i married a man that was raised in new york and connecticut. his entire family, northerners. i lived up north with him and our daughter for about a year or so. first connecticut, then amherst massachusetts. (i remember one flight going back home to connecticut and the male flight attendant and i were chatting it up. he asked where i lived in ct, when i told him he said “that’s a redneck town”. i had no idea there were rednecks up north!)
having had many years of therapy and self discovery (both very HARD things to do), i’ve learned that the people that REALLY judge people simply from the state in which they live are sad people. they do not feel worthy themselves of being alive, therefore they must search out others that they “deem” less fortunate than themselves. that, and they are small minded.
really, who gives a bloody fuck how high your iq is, if you live your entire life in financial debt b/c you cannot stop buying things you don’t need, cannot keep a job, and have to live off of other people’s money?
i mean, is this what your college degree gave you? no self respect, constant game playing and corruption? being first? i’ve often found that those that consider themselves of above average intelligence always choose the “right” part of the old question, “would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy”?
due to their high intelligence, they are not allowed to be happy. just right.
as you can tell, i got a lot from mr. avery’s quote about will smith, “truly bright people recognize when they don’t know something”.
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