As an Indian I was taught at an early age that intelligence is a virtue to aspire and work towards. Your intelligence is compared, tested, taken pride on, criticized and what not. You are left consumed in the growth and the show of intelligence. Finally you spend your youth writing exams and qualifying degrees to prove of that intelligence you claim to possess and you are probably fooled by this rigged system and left feeling all the more stupid. So is this intelligence all that it is made out to be. If you ask me and logical as I may be would answer the need for intelligence for me is able to achieve a couple things in life with probably less effort. So on a social evolution point of view people adapted to think intellect gives you a side entry to certain life goals where you get them faster while not working so hard. Over time an undue importance was given to it falsely putting it on a pedestal. The harder the rat race your society lives in, the more glorified intelligence gets because you fight off a few extra rats.

So then how do I look at it now. Have I broken the tendencies of this fandom to intelligence and given it, its true place. Have I realised something after being a long standing contestant in this rat race. My new take. We’ve been given a tool, an instrument to use it at will to experience what we need to out of life. Use the tool, dig out the earth and find what may come. Rather don’t get entangled in the hogwash around the tool. The laws of nature deemed you fit with a certain category of intellect because that is what you need to find what it is you are supposed to find in your life. And nature is the most law bound entity. It’s never wrong. So don’t misplace your efforts into questioning your intelligence or making a show of it if you are given a slightly better one. It’s the thing you make out of this tool that truely satiates it purpose. Do the justice to what you are given.