04-11-2019, 08:22 PM
"I just need my mind to become quicker and my memory to improve, if I can do that I’ll trulu be happy."
Hate to burst your bubble, but probably not. With your self esteem issues, chances are you'd be hating yourself even if you had an IQ of 140, you'd probably just find something else to feel is lacking about yourself.
And I've got an IQ of 130, and I still have self esteem issues and suffer from depression and emotional pain.
Your issue is your unwillingness to love and accept yourself. You don't need to be Einstein to do that. You also don't need to be Einstein to be mindful and live in the present here and now, which will lead to happiness. Often times, the source of our suffering is our thoughts, which come from the ego. Being smarter won't cause you to think less and experience in the here and now more. In fact, smart people are usually quite prone to thought.
I would reiterate the importance of being present and mindful, which does not take quickness of mind nor does it require great memory. If you can be present and mindful, you will have something MANY PEOPLE (including many smart people) sorely lack.
Everybody's got something about themselves that can give them a sense of inadequacy. But ultimately it's our decision to feel inadequate. And I'm telling you, even if your memory improved and your mind became quicker, you still wouldn't be happy because those things do not make one happy. It's like a poor person saying "I just need to have more money, then I'd be truly happy" Hate to burst your bubble, but no. That's not going to make you happy. Would it hurt? probably not. But it wouldn't equate to happiness.
Try loving yourself as you are. You are not your intellect. You are more than that. And what you have to offer the world is not decided by your intellect. If you can learn to love yourself, you will be able to love others, and if you can love others (TRULY love them) you will have more than enough to offer the world.
You do not have to be mentally quick to be worthy of love. You are already worthy. You just have to accept that. And maybe that's the purpose of having this limitation in life: for you to learn to love yourself as you are, even without a quick mind. I think you'd be surprised by how much you could do and accomplish and give and how much value you could provide without a quick mind, if you could just love yourself and love others as yourself. You have the potential to be a ray of light shining in the darkness, of which there is plenty here on planet Earth. But that light doesn't come from a quick mind. It comes from an open heart.
Hate to burst your bubble, but probably not. With your self esteem issues, chances are you'd be hating yourself even if you had an IQ of 140, you'd probably just find something else to feel is lacking about yourself.
And I've got an IQ of 130, and I still have self esteem issues and suffer from depression and emotional pain.
Your issue is your unwillingness to love and accept yourself. You don't need to be Einstein to do that. You also don't need to be Einstein to be mindful and live in the present here and now, which will lead to happiness. Often times, the source of our suffering is our thoughts, which come from the ego. Being smarter won't cause you to think less and experience in the here and now more. In fact, smart people are usually quite prone to thought.
I would reiterate the importance of being present and mindful, which does not take quickness of mind nor does it require great memory. If you can be present and mindful, you will have something MANY PEOPLE (including many smart people) sorely lack.
Everybody's got something about themselves that can give them a sense of inadequacy. But ultimately it's our decision to feel inadequate. And I'm telling you, even if your memory improved and your mind became quicker, you still wouldn't be happy because those things do not make one happy. It's like a poor person saying "I just need to have more money, then I'd be truly happy" Hate to burst your bubble, but no. That's not going to make you happy. Would it hurt? probably not. But it wouldn't equate to happiness.
Try loving yourself as you are. You are not your intellect. You are more than that. And what you have to offer the world is not decided by your intellect. If you can learn to love yourself, you will be able to love others, and if you can love others (TRULY love them) you will have more than enough to offer the world.
You do not have to be mentally quick to be worthy of love. You are already worthy. You just have to accept that. And maybe that's the purpose of having this limitation in life: for you to learn to love yourself as you are, even without a quick mind. I think you'd be surprised by how much you could do and accomplish and give and how much value you could provide without a quick mind, if you could just love yourself and love others as yourself. You have the potential to be a ray of light shining in the darkness, of which there is plenty here on planet Earth. But that light doesn't come from a quick mind. It comes from an open heart.
