People are built differently.
That’s just how we go. There are roughly 7.8 billion models on earth at present.
It is not like getting a car though. We don’t get to order who we’d like to be, and then have them put us together on the assembly line. Or. Perhaps we do. Maybe before we are born, we pick exactly who we are, and exactly where we want to be. Our families, the whole nine yards. You see, I don’t actually know how that part works. I’m speculating in both directions.
Anyway, once we get here, we are a certain way. We are built capable to do certain things. My current physique would not allow me to be an NFL player, linemen, receiver, or otherwise. Not even the water boy. In another example, my current brain capacity would not allow me to be a nuclear physicist. This goes on and on, in endless directions.
We have certain aptitudes. Gifts. Capabilities. We are able to do things that other people are not. But it doesn’t stop at the physical and the mental.
At least I don’t think so.
I purport that it goes into the emotional, and even into the spiritual.
There are all sorts of quotes about “happiness” for instance. Our good president, Abraham Lincoln said, “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
For as smart and good as he was, I have to disagree. I think some people are wired differently in this way. Some people are born happy, the water rolling off their backs like waxy ducks. And then. Some people feel the weight of the world, or they empathize with others’ sadness. I don’t think it is a “switch” that all of us can flip on, or off. At least, I don’t have such a switch.
We all are built differently.
I have to remember this as I try to move through this world. Not only did we come out of the hatch with different capabilities, but we have also been shaped by our personal experience. Throughout our lives.
Albeit, with all of that said, we can learn. We should see every moment of our lives as a possibility. A chance to learn. And grow. We are not completely frozen in place by our genetic dispositions. We can flourish in ways we never knew possible if we are willing to find those ways.
Again, with that learning comes limit. I can learn to play basketball, but it is unlikely that I will ever play in the NBA. I can learn math skills, but I will never solve “Good Will Hunting” chalkboard equations. But some people can. And do.
Far and wide. To and fro. High and low.
We are all built differently.
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
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“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.”
— Hedy Lamarr
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“Start your own circle.”
― Richie Norton
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