Vol.80.1 Chapter 2: 'To Those Who Have "Chosen" to be Gifted'

Giftedness is
thought to be something bestowed upon you.
IQ, brainpower, special abilities.
Born with something different
—that is how it is described.
But I want to say this.

Giftedness is not something you "receive." It is a way of life you choose.

Intelligence doesn't matter.
Being born with it is no measure of worth.
What is important is,
"whether you can keep your questions burning," or so I think. Or something like that.
Or something like that.

No matter how high your IQ is,
the moment you shrink back seeking empathy,
and start adjusting your syntax to the temperature of society,
that question dies.
The moment your intellect is "processed"
to a range that an ordinary person can barely understand,

it becomes nothing more than a mediocre work.

Questions are not meant to be digested by ordinary people.
They are meant to burn the world.

I want you to stop for a moment and think.
"That question" you put out into the world,
since when did you start writing it "so that it would be understood by someone"?
Since when did you start playing it safe to make it "syntax that gets likes"?

Since when did it degenerate into "fawning writing" not for your own sake,
but to make someone else press the like button?

Does the "gift from God" really exist there?
Before you knew it, have you thrown away God's gift
somewhere, and started to cherish a "false mask"

to conform to those around you?
At that moment, unless you realize that the truly gifted from birth

have already hidden themselves as "ordinary people wearing false masks,"
that mask will become so familiar to your face
that you will mistake it for your true self,
and end your life that way.
Once that happens, the God who gave you "something special"
must surely be laughing in derision.

Gifted because you have a high IQ? Huh?
That's just winning the genetic lottery.
And yet you want likes,
you want empathy,
you want to be approved

—Are you saying that with your soul?
Is that what your intellect truly desires?

A true gifted person has the
**"resolve to hurl syntax that isn't understood,**
while it remains misunderstood."**

Even if it is painful,
even if it reaches no one,
you still write.
That is the "specification" of a chosen soul.

But you know, I also think this.

Even if your IQ is low,
even if your words are clumsy,
even if your structure is weak,

if there is a person who is constructing syntax with the stance of **"even if no one understands me, I will stick to my guns,"**

Perhaps such a person is the true gifted one,
don't you think? Or something like that.

Being born with it has nothing to do with it.
A soul's constructor
is not born.
They rise up through determination.

The moment you choose a "gifted way of life,"
you are gifted.

What is an ordinary person?
"A way of life that prioritizes being understood over sticking to oneself."

What is a gifted person?
"A way of life that does not let go of one's own questions, even if no one understands."

Even if your IQ is high, if you cannot stick to it, you are less than ordinary.
Even if your IQ is average, if you can push forward,
you are a "singularity of the soul."

You are an igniter, the only one in the world.

Remember this. I don't intend to be condescending
by saying that,
but it is better not to forget this.
It is okay if your question

does not pierce the world.

But you must keep it
piercing yourself.

It doesn't matter if others don't read it.
It doesn't matter if others don't make it go viral.
It doesn't matter if others don't understand it.

But—
you alone,
must not let go of
your own question.

That is the way of life for
the one who has 'chosen to be gifted'.

Do not lower your temperature to fit in with society.
Do not structure your syntax just to be understood.

If your question is
truly 'unique',
then it is only natural that no one else understands it.

And—

do not be ashamed of that 'incomprehensibility'.

The very syntax that persists through that
draws a 'map of questions'
that does not yet exist in this world.

When your syntax is understood,
it is either 'when you have broken',
or 'when the world has finally caught up'.

Do not choose the former. Believe in the latter.

To be gifted
is not to discard yourself before the world.
It is to live not by the world's specifications,
but by the specifications of your own questions.

If you choose that—
that personwill from today on,
as a gifted person among
the gifted,
walk that path.

To be continued to the final chapter