Posted 12:00 PM by The Consultant
You are so intelligent, that you will always miss the obvious. You will always chase that which is elusive; you will strive forever to explain the ambiguities in other peoples’ lives. You will sell your brain to solve the problems of some John Doe you have never met and in all probability will never meet. You will create structure that will imprison chaos. Your eyes will shine with immense pleasure of intellectual maneuvers, the sheer thrill of finding that hazy line on which many have stumbled, your followers will stare at you with wonder in their eyes, listen with rapt attention and dream of following your footsteps that disappear into the blinding brilliance of success. They will smirk at those who were stupid enough to realize the obvious and drop out of the insanely fast lane. You will fondly recollect the carefree laughter, the startling touch of raindrops, the tantalizing smell of success that feels so stale & futile today. You will wonder why you never realized that the road was eternal. You will curse yourself for never stopping for that cup of tea that you thought would taste better after the travel. You will miss those treks in green jungles that you did not go to, you will long for another chance to attend that wedding you didn’t attend because of work. But it is too late. The janitor has been trying to wake you up for last 5 minutes. But then how can he, who is just intelligent enough to hold onto the post of a janitor for last 20 years, hope to succeed, where you, the crème d’la crème, failed. When they will arrive to take away the empty vessel which kept chasing the horizon, battling with the waves that were trying to guide it back to its goal, you will always regret one thing : You were too intelligent to realize the obvious.