Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Sadness and Intelligence: Essay

 

Sadness and Intelligence

Charles Bukowski once said that “sadness is caused by intelligence.” The more we understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them. I think it depends on society, on the surroundings in which we live and work. In ignorance society, when people are materialistic and shallow, people are not bothered by truth. It is sad that the truth does not make a difference. Ignorance is bliss when life is easy, and you are simply minded.

Intelligence is knowledge. Knowledge has power. One day, you work and lead people with knowledge and action to success to obtain the understanding of goals. Another day, you have the same knowledge and a different surrounding and understanding that the reality changed, and that there are no need of the your knowledge and actions, and that creates sadness if you do not know how to get new, different knowledge and understanding how to improve, react, reflect, correct, and illuminate to be able to rejects sadness.

Lord Byron said: “Sorrow is knowledge, those who know the most must mourn the deepest, tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” Wise intelligent minds are looking on a way to act better, reflect on real-life situations, and finding possibilities for new beginnings. Of course, sadness is an emotional trigger. Perhaps it is a mental state-of-mind of being driven to a combination of searching for truth to impower and satisfy the intelligent curiosity. The inner voice says, go, do something to bring life. Higher level of intelligence uplifts the perception of sadness and happiness based on principles of morality of life.

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