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Would you rather be smart, or beautiful?
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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn't realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.
My trick to coping with that has been to seek out rooms or contexts in which I'm the stupid one, relatively speaking. I sometimes struggle with insecurity when doing this (especially as a bright kid who was "a big fish in a small pond"), but I never feel happier than when I'm learning from someone knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their little weird slice of the world.