I've recently learned that there are two types of people. People who are truly intelligent. People who fake intelligence in order to feel secure and unique while their life has no control or direction. The second group being the most dangerous. Always trying so hard to prove themselves as intelligent. Trying to rationalize why they can't go to school. But if you prove them wrong, you have a battle. You've damaged a piece of their personality that helps them sleep at night. You've damaged their delusional self-image that keeps them from falling apart.
Most of the time, you know who those people are and you just tend to roll your eyes and ignore them. Perhaps even patronize their attempts at sounding intelligent But every now and then, you don't realize when you have hurt this type of person. You start to notice they treat you like crap or constantly try to outsmart you at the subject you excel in. And at first your reaction might be to tell them off; you can't. You can't blurt how stupid they really are. You can't point out their insecurities. You can't tell them that this terrible charade of pretending to be intelligent to make themselves feel better about not having any direction is ridiculous. You can't. These people don't change. They don't want to. It's one of the few things in their life that actually works.
It's truly their only escape from the life they are leading to no where.
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