Thoughts: ... And yet another person calls me a "Genius!" - Will humans never learn?

The other day, as I was eating my customary single daily meal at Saint Anthony's Catholic Soup Kitchen in downtown San Francisco, I was yet again accused (by a total stranger no less) of being some sort of "phenomenal Intellectual or Psychological Genius," whatever _that_ may be...

... Having been called such before, and being that we were eating in a Soup Kitchen for the poor and Homeless, I gave my customary response to such undeserved (and not well thought out IMHO) praise;

"Well thank you kindly Sir, but I would answer your compliment by saying to you that _if_ I _am_ such a Genius; Why am I so financially downtrodden that I am eating in a Catholic Charities Soup Kitchen nearly every day? Why have I lived a life of chronic homelessness, unending hunger, Jails, Mental Wards, and Addictions? Why haven't I been able to hold down a job for nearly 20 years?"

Typing it now I can see where one might think I said this _Sarcastically_, Cynically, or at the very least with a large dose of Self-Pity... but nothing could be further than the truth. Having said this particular line many, many times, I am well practiced in saying it with a joviality and warmth carefully calculated to help the whomever made the inquiry feel less "in awe" of my "genius" and more understanding of the fact that we are /ALL/ Genius' and what appears to them as a "higher intellect" than they are used to is in fact simply the /BALANCE/ end of a Personality just like theirs; e.g. Composed of both Good and Bad qualities.

For the "Semantic Silent Partner" of the "Compliment", to me, of the "You are a real genuine Genius" (which I humbly admit I have been hearing from strangers for as long as I have been alive) is often the Complimenter /FEELING/ "Stupid," or "Less than," me in the "Brain Power" area (Completing the sentence might go "You are so much _SMARTER THAN ME_"). Since this sort of "Compliment" is in fact an act of ENVY/JELOUSEY/GOSSIP/etc (the "Evil Eye" Essentially) it behooves me to balance this _Misconception_ that I am "smarter" than _ANYONE_. Because IMHO "smarts" has truly yet to be honestly quantified. "IQ" is no decent measure, as a any decent Scientist can tell you.

Well, quite to my surprise, the French Citizen I was addressing scolded me for my (somewhat false) Humility! He said: "One thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other! What does money have to do with Genius, eh? Perhaps you are so intelligent that you respect yourself too much to whore yourself out to any Employer who does not meet your criteria, eh? And Addiction? Please! The Human condition is Addiction and Genius is no different! So please, mon ami, appreciate yourself non?" ...

...and with that God[dess] spoke to me again, through humans, as the Holy Spirit is in the habit of...

Merci Patrice!