Trixie's blog: "random ponderings"

I like to think I am a pretty intelligent person in general. I always did well in school, scored amazingly well on my SAT and was accepted to universities that most would kill to attend (I wish I could have gone to one of them in the end). I say this not to talk myself up or brag because I know there are thousands of people more intelligent than I am. I simply am giving a background of myself to relate to.
  I respect people who are both more and less intelligent than I am. I admire people who don't have to flaunt their superior vocabulary or vast knowledge in all things to know that they are indeed smart. I understand that some feel the need to prove to others how much smarter they are, what I don't understand or respect is why. I respect people who are secure enough with themselves that they don't have to be so abrupt and down putting to others around them.
  If I put my mind to correcting everything I see, hear or read I would be correcting all day long. I can school many people I know on alot of things they think they know, but I don't feel the need to make everyone around me feel inferior. Granted, I do at times correct people and sometimes I flaunt my intelligence but it is almost 99% of the time in a joking way with my husband or our friends.
  I respect people based on who they are, how they act and what they do. Your level of intelligence means nothing more to me than a possible information source in the future. I don't have the urge to use words best reserved for papers I write in school in every conversation I have to make others feel inferior. Maybe I'm crazy but I would rather not alienate people and just enjoy what I'm doing instead.