Thread: Do you stand out substantially from society?

I had the exact same mindset and thinking as you do now. I think it's just a part of growing up as a teenager who is intelligent. I've defined certain stages of this process, but it's based on myself and a few others, so I can't be certain it applies to everyone. I think you'll get over this soon and just start using your intelligence for everyday things and for your future. I wanted to change things for the world also, but you find it's impossible. Well not impossible, but you'll soon come to realize it will never be exactly what you wanted.

Originally Posted by KushyBear

I had the exact same mindset and thinking as you do now. I think it's just a part of growing up as a teenager who is intelligent. I've defined certain stages of this process, but it's based on myself and a few others, so I can't be certain it applies to everyone. I think you'll get over this soon and just start using your intelligence for everyday things and for your future. I wanted to change things for the world also, but you find it's impossible. Well not impossible, but you'll soon come to realize it will never be exactly what you wanted.

You cannot change anybody. Perception determines conception, conception determines will. Thus, as was stated in a book, you provide examples, provide opportunities, let people make of it what they can. For no one can open a mind, but the mind itself, or in a mystery, "What he shall shut, none shall open, and what he shall open, none shall shut." Or simply put, you know and understand what you know and understand.

This is true of every environmental acquisition system of a living organism. No one can eat for you, breathe for you, hear for you--nor can you do these things for anyone else. Simply give them a breath of fresh air, or bread, or a blanket to keep warm--what they make of it, is what they are. Some will be thankful, others fearful. Some will return in measure, some will demand more, some will toss it back in your face. It changes nothing. You change the world simply by being that change.

Approached in this manner, one should never "burn out" but simply be a light.