I has a curiosity.

[backstept]

I want to learn everything there is to know about everything. Right now. This is why I couldn't pick a major in college and why I didn't finish. I'm interested in so many things, I can't just pick one focus. In highschool I was ready to move on to the next thing when the rest were trying to learn the current topic . . . this is why I was so bored all the time. Everyone else is so slow.

This is why I hate NOVA episodes that don't end with real answers. This is why I hate articles with no real substance. This is why I hate pop culture. This is why I hate sports, I abhor the sameness . . . you see one guy hit/kick/throw a ball you've seen 'em all. There's nothing new there.

This is why I love Science Fiction. This is why I love technology. This is why I love the arts. This is why I love science, literature, history. I want to know everything there is to know about absolutely everything that interests me. There's always something new there.

I live inside my head. I practice conversations in my head. I visit other worlds in my head. I build things. I destroy things. I hear music. I always hear music in my head.

How do things work? What makes it tick? What are we made of?

I want to learn everything there is to know about everything.
But I can't. My mind moves too fast and by the time class starts I'm bored.

I say random things that make sense to me but not to you because you mention something that sparks my mind and while you're still talking my mind has touched on six different random associations from that single spark, so while my random thing seems totally unrelated, it totally is.

I love to read because books let me build a world in my mind and live there for a short time.

I don't care if I have ADD or something else undiagnosed. I don't want to treat this. I want to feed it.



I don't know why I wrote all that . . .

 

[MANT!]

Neither do I...

but you could get some professional help...and drugs that'll make it MUCH better...

 

[sojourner]

The post almost reads as making fun of another tbbs member.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Lithium is your friend.

 

[Jadzia]

It is called curiosity.

Everyone else is so slow.

It's quite possible that you are in a higher intelligence bracket, whereby the majority of people are in fact slower than yourself, but there's only a 1 in 6.6 billion chance that everyone is slower than you.

The solution would be to rely on yourself for intellectual nourishment, so that other people's speed does not affect you.

My mind moves too fast and by the time class starts I'm bored.

An experiment you can do at home: Try relying on yourself for intellectual nourishment. If your mind still moves too fast, then other people being too slow is not the source of the problem.

 

[Brent]

tranquilizers, do it

 

[captcalhoun]

are you on drugs?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Can your cat has cheezburger, though? 'Cause you know what curiosity did to the cat.

 

[Brent]

Ceiling cat is watching us?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Humean Supervenience!

 

[mari]

Me too. And one of my sisters. Our conversations get really interesting thanks to that "random spark" thing.

So I think you're fine. Just get more books and stuff.

 

[Wanderlust]

Me an you need to talk, im an info hog as well ^^

 

[Skellington]

I don't care if I have ADD or something else undiagnosed. I don't want to treat this. I want to feed it.

This. If it ain't broken then there's no need to fix it.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Have you read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson? It comes heavily recommended, and I gave a copy to my brother two years ago.