Smartness?

Hey everyone. How are ya? Are there more disappointed people about the U of M game against MSU this past Saturday? Well, I can tell you that I am extremely disappointed, but I guess that is the way it goes sometimes.

Anyways, my husband and I actually got home from the game not too long ago and there was one single thought in my head the entire ride home (and for a good part of the time there). And that is that people are extremely inconsiderate or just plain stupid. Of course anyone can assume that Ann Arbor was totally out of control on Saturday, but why the "Annarchy" so to speak? (A funny term, but I felt I had to include it because as I was at a dead stop, the car next to me made that joke.) I tell everyone all of this because it goes into my very next point. This whole trip into Ann Arbor got me thinking in a larger picture: my "smartness". Not just when it comes to driving in horrible traffic, but also when it comes to classes, and pretty much life in general.

I cannot exactly say that I am the smartest person I know, but I would like to think that I am pretty darn close to it. See that is the thing, I know I am not the smartest person in the world, or the smartest person I know for that matter. In the past few weeks from doing the workshops in class, I have come to find that many of my fellow classmates have very valid and strong ideas and opinions that I would never think of myself. I am also in another workshop this semester for poetry. The entire idea of the class is just the same as this one, however we strictly write poems to be peer reviewed. Again, I know I am not the smartest person in the world, but I know what I know. And in my opinion, the people in my workshop in poetry are also much "smarter" than I would like to think of myself. They seem to understand what a particular poem is about before I can grasp any real concept and I read the poems over and over again. But wait, does that make them necessarily "smarter" than me? I am not sure, but I suppose that would be a safe thing to say.

Please do not get me wrong, I am not really saying that I am not smart or particularly stupid, I guess I am just finally realizing that I do not know everything and I certainly would like to know and learn more; hence, precisely why I am in school. I want to be able to take what I learn from all of my years in school and use them in my daily life and anywhere I go. Eventually, I would like to see myself being able to answer the same questions I asked in high school or college as a professor. The only question I have now is: how will I get there?

See you Monday everyone!