h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've always thought that I was destined for something great. I've got a very high IQ, am quite good looking, am kind and generous, etc. About two years ago, I had a thought. I'm probably a backup plan. Someone born and raised to do [something] if plan 'A' failed. But plan 'A' obviously succeded. So that leaves me without a purpose.

So I'll just be quiet and help who i come across as much as i can.

kismet

Hey me too, I've never thought of it like that.

I've kinda felt like that too, although I'm far from kind/generous/etc. I have an IQ in the genius range, and I've been researching military history and realized that I have a passion for military strategy. I've always felt like I should have been born into the world of "Ender's Game", but I was somehow cheated.

Unfortunately, having a high IQ doesn't make you a genius, and it certainly doesn't entitle one to the automatic adulation of others. This is what the typically low-achievers who join Mensa seem to think, but they don't grasp that it's what you *do* with what you've got, rather than what you start out with that matters. I had an extremely high IQ as a child but I only partially realised my potential in that sense. It's now a facet of my personality, rather than the be-all and end-all of it, and I am very grateful for this now.

Actually, I think that the person I was as a child wouldn't have liked the person I am now very much, simply because my priorities and perspective on life has changed so much. There is plenty of cleverness in the world, but it seems that so many of the problems: hunger, disease, poverty, are in fact very simple to solve (I don't equate 'simple' with 'easy' in this context) and what is *really* lacking is a degree of fellow-feeling for other people. But then, the 'young me' wouldn't have put such a high priority on that kind of attitude.