Laundry day without IQ, please!

Today's laundry day. I hate that.

No, actually I don't. It's nice putting your brain on idle and "just do it". On the other hand, the periods of totally idling brain are quite short. That's what I really hate. Sometimes I just don't want to think. At all. My brain is turbo-driven and doing household chores, especially laundry, for some reason makes it rev down a bit.

I'm not saying that I'm over the top intelligent but my brain never seems to relax. As I had my nervous breakdown a couple of years ago I went through a whole lot of psychiatric and psycological tests, among them a couple of IQ-tests. Depending on the test, and what shape I was in, my IQ was measured to be between 125 and 136 which would have made me able to claim a membership in MENSA. I never did.

Why? Because I consider intelligence to be so much more than just being able to keep a lot of information in your head. I've met numerous of "intelligent" people who look down on others who might not have been able to keep a lot of infomation in their heads, but who had other sorts of IQ.

My baby brother for instance. He and I took a test and he got a pretty low score, under average. (I still enjoy teasing him about that...) Guess what? He's the succesful one, with his own business and money to spare. You can blindfold him, give him a full set of tools and he will repair almost anything. He's got what I call intelligent hands.

Or the guy who used to work for my father. He was considered to be dumb as a can of beans but he drove trucks like a dream. He had a tremendous IQ when it came to spatial abilities and knew exactly where he had all eight corners of the truck and the eight corners of the trailer.

Or my own little CartoonBoy... who hasn't got much of social skills but can hold tremendous amounts of information in his head and has the ability to take in so much information from a computer game that he actually can foresee what's going to happen. And that's not all. His eyes seem to register every little pixel in the games and he sees things that no one else registers.

But what use do I have from an high IQ, since my strengths lie in unnecessary knowledge, gathering information and sorting out the important pieces of that information? What's the use of intelligence when it's not sought for by employers?


Well, it may be as it is with that matter. Next monday I'm going back to school, trying to obtain ECDL, learning english and maths. Hopefully I can soon decide what I'd like to be when I grow up. If I ever do that.

And now... back to the laundry...