...so take me as I am.

In the name of Allah, creator of the unimaginable, un-invent-able, great things in the galaxy.


Hi folks, sorry I've been gone for quite some time (as if anyone's reading my posts). I felt like I've talked about practically everything in the world, or well, in my world. But at the same time, the more I write, the more I feel like there are so much more I haven't talked about, so much more untouched by myself, alone. What interests me tonight? Well, let me ask you, what interests you most in people?


So they say, "Beauty is skin-deep". What do you say about intelligence then? How deep do you see it in others and how deep is it to you? I know Binet created the intelligence test, how far do you agree or disagree with it? Is intelligence really that easily measured, but how come? 


Let us see ourselves with a child of our own, and you'll find yourself helplessly having intelligence in your list of expectations on the child. How intelligent you want your child to be for you to be proud enough of him and how do you even measure the level of intelligence that'll satisfy you? That sounds so unfair to me. Intelligence is abstract, it shouldn't be measurable, nor judged. Recall an incident where you've labeled someone as more intelligent than the other, how exactly did  you do it? 


Is intelligence only seen by the grades a child gets in school? Does having straight A+ in your result slip makes you intelligent? Well, don't deny it, because nowadays, that's the fact. Everybody is judging one's intelligence by the grades, the A or the C or F. Who cares? I'm not being bias just because I'm not really so bright in the eyes of everybody else, as in I didn't get straight A's for my SPM examination, yet I don't see myself or any of my other friends who did not get the expected results as dumb. An A doesn't prove you'll do just fine in future, an A won't prove you'll live a good life, an A doesn't necessarily mean you'll be living your dreams in the mere future, an A proves NOTHING. Try ask those straight A's people about some of the lessons they've learnt in class during high school and see if they can still answer. Number one, most people only learn by memorizing, instead of applying. I don't blame them though, everyone's pushing them so hard, shoving their heads with all the expectations and they just had to comply, why, because nowadays, that's price you have to pay to fit in, to be accepted by society. People don't like you if you're dumb, it's like if you're a smart student, you'll become the teachers' pet, and if not, you'll be just another student in school. These days, lacking with even just an A will cause you to be rejected by the public universities, so you tell me, which part of the system is fair enough? And to be able to get in, you'll have to make another request and beg them to let you in, so once again, you tell me, should we be begging to be accepted in our own country? Still sounds fair to you?


Being intelligent isn't by chance, nor choice, but by faith and effort. If you believe your child is intelligent, he will become intelligent, not because you're pushing him but because you believe in him, and his efforts will come alongside, and maybe not by the grades in school, but by how far he'll go in his own life, pursuing his dreams, living a meaningful life, and being able to say in the end that he had really lived his life and made the best of it. How is that compared to your A+? It's not fair to judge people, no matter in what sense. Sometimes we tell people and remind ourselves too to not be judgmental, but never realized how helpless we are in labeling people in our mindsets, sometimes unconsciously. How pathetic of us. Be careful of what you think about people, someone so ordinary to you might just be another great person in history. Like I've mentioned previously, try to look at things or people through your very own lens, your eye-piece, look differently, you'll see different things from everybody else, even some of the most special things. Just have them your way, you won't look at the world the same way ever again.