What is genius? What is it to be a genius, and how are the people we define as genuis, classified? Perhaps by their ideas, or perhaps it is in the execution of their whimsical thoughts. Websters defines a genius as: "a single strongly marked capacity or aptitude".
Well, there you have it. Why do I pose this question? B/c I have sought out genuis my whole life. I have sought to emcompass it within my being. I am an actor and I search for that stroke of 'genius' in both writing and performance. I want to write an amazing story and script it. I have studied, unofficially, many story lines as I sit in the theatre. I have seen the shining delight of Quinten Tarintino's scripts, to the glory of the almighty Speilberg. I mean what makes a script or body of writing a work of art, magnifico. To me, it is both simple and complex at the same time. Above all, it speaks about real life, it narrates and comments on the world we live in today. It makes us walk out of the theatre a little shaken and ourselves contemplating....
I have tried to write a script of such nature...and I cannot seem to grasp it...I cannot get a handle on genius...
So perhaps, genius cannot not be gained by efforts, but rather genes....but if that were true why was Einstien so bad at school in his ealry life? Damn...how the hell does one attain a level of strength that it trumps all else in that field?
If I have ever come close to being one or even skimming it's illustrious surface, I have shared it with the great and master-minding brainiac known as Socrates...who when asked why he thought he was the greatest intellect of all time, simply stated: "I have travelled the world and have seen many great minds, but what makes me simply smarter than the rest, is that I know of my own ignorance".
And ladies and gentlemen, my brush with intellect supremecy is this: II know of my ignorance and I know I am no genius, and will not likely be one in my life time......
But then again, if you asked my friends, they would tell you: It doesn't take a genius to see that!
Here are some lyrics from a true genius in the music industry- the late Johnny Cash. I am including this cause I feel destroyed on the inside at the moment and I heard this song and it stuck with me....the battle is almost over, and despite my efforts, I see I shall lose. My fate is in my hand: shall I acede and live, or fight and die trying? Freedom is all I have to say, right Braveheart?
Braveheart(William Wallace): Right!
Johnny Cash - Hurt (lyrics)
I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear my crown of thorns
on my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stain of time
the feeling disappears
you are someone else
I am still right here
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way