So, you think Life has dealt you a bad hand?

Think again. You are wrong. Look at you. You are good-looking, intelligent (135), educated, in good health, and not destitute. Then think further. You are well-read, conversant in multiple languages, terrific in logic and reasoning, and verbally gifted. That's not all. At last count, 21 women of diverse ethnicities and cultures (Viet, Chinese, American (European White), Hispanic (Mexican, Ecuadorian) Jewish, Filipina, and Iranian) have professed love for you. On top of all that, your son is good-looking (just like his Dad in his prime), intelligent (IQ 140), educated, and self-supporting.

What else do you want, man? Be happy. Don't worry. You have been very lucky. Many dudes would like to trade their places with yours.

But, Silvio, I have not published any books or even stories and poems. I have not made a name for myself in world stage. I have not contributed anything original to the human thought although the following ideas are what I have arrived on my own, but I am not claiming they are original:

1. There is absolutely no personal God. Those who think so are either stupid or deluded or both.
2. Everything that rises will converge. Diversity is just various manifestations of unity. Macro and micro realities complement each other. Singularity is the origin of everything. Just think of the following staggering fact:

An average human male sexual ejaculation contains 100 million sperms, out of that multitude, only one sperm can penetrate a human female egg. Each human is the result of that chance encounter.
3. The below cannot comprehend the above. Stupid people can never understand the more intelligent folks. There is an hierarchy of understanding.
4. Humans don't fully understand who they are unless they are tested by the circumstances.

Roberto, still, at the end of the day, you must hold fast to a conviction that you are indeed rare, uncommon, and exquisitely sensitive and aesthetically-minded. You have the right to be contemptuous to certain cowards and hypocrites and selfish, insensitive clods out there. You should not be uncomfortable of feeling superior to them. You have to be honest with yourself. False modesty is despicable.



Roberto Wissai