Only the Lonely

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, Howard Stern was discussing how lonely it must be to be smart. His basic argument was he wasn't all that smart and when people called into his show he was amazed how stupid they were, so therefore people who were really smart must be very lonely. That they do not have too many people to talk to. Now, I am not someone who considers myself "really smart" but I am one of the one percent of the population who has earned a PhD. which is probably an indicator of some intelligence. When I am in these childbirth classes I think about what Howard Stern said and I think, now I know what he meant.

My friends here are generally very intelligent so I have surrounded myself with people with whom I do not feel this Stern loneliness. It's when I go out into the real world I realize just how much of an anomaly I truly am. I won't make fun of them here, because that truly is classless, but I will say that my teenage eye rolling skills have come back in full force in these classes...so I sit in the back so no one will see.