The Average Mind

The average mind — my favorite criterion for an evaluation. And it’s a completely positive one.

Where did it come from? My mother once had a housekeeper, Ira, from Ukraine. Ira, when she knew that the result of completing a task could lead to some consequences, liked to repeat: “No, this is definitely not for average minds!”. In this case, she was apparently talking about herself. Frankly speaking though, her average mind was just enough for her thought to transform into a certain form.

Can’t resist to note this… to me, people are divided into 3 categories: moron
(weak mind), average mind, and “wasserman” (dominant organization). Because I can turn a thought into a certain form, I can confidently associate myself with the second group. In fact, I sincerely admire the third group.

It is important to understand that every person has their own ceiling, and it is impossible to jump above your head. For instance, have you ever encountered individuals who constantly study, attend lectures, but somehow still end up to be morons? And it does not even concern how much knowledge they possess! It is more about an opportunity to apply this knowledge to life! This is what helps a moron to acquire the average mind! That’s what happened to the housekeeper, Ira (forgive me, Lord) – she acquired the latter! And she obtained a highly paid job while being the head of the house on Rublevka, which is the wealthiest district in Moscow.

My beloved grandmother always claims, “no mind, consider him a cripple!”. This saying clearly confirms that morons are people too, just handicapped. And there is nothing shameful in it. If you are a moron, but don’t believe you are one, then you are a moron. It is similar to being an alcoholic. An alcoholic would never confess he is one. Why? Because he exists in his own imaginary alcoholic world. He loves it and feels great there. In the non-alcoholic world, he feels worse, so he immediately returns to the alcoholic one. Same with any moron. A moron would invent his own world with a moronic environment, moronic friends, and moronic activities. Shooting games, a trip to the grocery store for some booze, getting poor treatment from others out of the blue, the pathological impossibility of making money – this is the world of a moron. It tightens and absorbs. Is it scary to take the leap into the “average mind”? Indeed, what does it have there? The unknown!

The average mind is the most common type. Although, excuse me for saying this, there are many more morons than average minds! Hence, the second group. There are fewer of them, but still a lot of individuals fall into this category.

These are the people, or rather, it is you (since you are reading this) and me
(since I am writing this), as well as those with whom you graduated from college and maybe even got a master’s degree together. Yes, you heard me right. After graduating and receiving the master’s degree, you still remain an average mind in my personal gradation. If you disagree, then give me an answer to this question: how, in monetary terms, your master’s degree has affected your financial situation? Have you started to earn 2 times more? This is good, but not enough! This just confirms that you are not a moron!!! But you are not a Wasserman either. And “wasserman” is actually Wasserman, as well as Perelman, Lieberman, etc. — this is already a genius category, so to speak. These comrades are born this way. These are the people who essentially studied merely to learn how to write. Since they went into the third grade, they’ve been getting dreams filled with formulas / poems / or some other physical /mathematical-shit, so they needed to find out how to immediately take notes.

Do you like museums? Do you read? Do you enjoy going to a theater? Are you learning a foreign language? Do you write posts on Facebook? Do you have personal assistants? Do you think that you aren’t like anyone else? Are you reading this right now? Congratulations, you are officially the average mind! And no need to pamper yourself with any illusions.

© Masha Lopatova