Lately I have been feeling like I'm superior to everyone around me. In middle school through highschool I was constantly bullied and felt like crap, I was a big nerd back then and was considered by most people to be intelligent but I was frail, pale, had acne, was short, and had no social skills, and was addicted to MMORPGS. Now as a sophomore in college I am still sort of nerdy but I've lost my acne and MMO addiction, have become more confident and I've grown to be 6ft 200lbs cause I go to the gym at least 4 days a week and practically all the girls I talk to say Im hot and have a good personality and say how smart I am since I am going into Medschool to be a radiologist. Lately I have been feeling like I am superior to everyone around me and I've started looking down on everyone as being lesser than me. I try to treat people with respect and I do...but in my head I still consider myself to be superior to just about everyone.
2007-05-12 07:49:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
A penny for your thoughts:
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
2007-05-12 07:58:03 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ G ♥ 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here's an exercise: think up some people to whom you are NOT superior.
Stumped? Think of all those categoires you listed in your q and then think of the MOST accomplished in those areas. Then you will know you are not the best.
I fight this problem all the time, btw, because I am high intelligence, but... that and $3.75 and rising will buy you a Starbucks and that's about it. It's actually not enough.
My very serious suggestion is that you use your prodigious brains to think this through with logic, perhaps write it down, and consult it whenever you get confused again on the point. Nobody but nobody likes a self-absorbed smart aleck, and you really don't want to end up with good skin, clean and sober, fit, smart, a radiologist, and all alone, do you?
2007-05-12 07:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by CarlisleGirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are superior to everyone else. So now you have the obligation to take care of the rest of us. I need a few bucks to make my rent, could you help me out?
It is common for people who accomplish a lot and are intelligent to get a superior feeling. It may help to make a parallel comparison, you to say a college professor with 2 masters and 40 years experience. It is great to have self confidence and feel good about yourself but it is not healthy to dwell on it. You will soon be repelling the people that think you are hot and sexy, because you will be arrogant and boring. You are what you are but everybody else are what they are too. Some of them are less attractive than you and some are more.. I suggest you keep your humility at whatever the cost.
2007-05-12 08:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by James Q 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you constantly think you're better than everyone, it will inhibit you from forming meaningful relationships with anyone in the future. Think about the time when you were being bullied and how it made you feel. Chances are, the people bullying you thought they were better than you and didn't give you a chance to prove otherwise. Someone who is "superior" to someone else would have a sense of humility and not think the way you do.
2007-05-12 08:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by nebnotlob 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear proud one,
May be you are superior to everyone else! This is not a new phenomena. The oldest known written story is about a guy who was superior to everyone and how that affected him. It is the Epic of Gilgamesh written even before the Bible in around 3000 BC. Why don't you obtain a copy of it and read it and find out how Gilgamesh solved his problem. It might help you.
Good luck, good health, peace and love!
Mad Mac
2007-05-12 12:11:32 · answer #5 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Payback time. You've been treated like shi'e all through your youth, so when you get good compliments about yourself they go to your head because you can't deal with them. I've seen it before - I've nearly been there before, having been a rebel against everything popular - just for the sake of rebelling - in school myself and my good grades every time didn't work.
Just remember, people aren't all the same. You're good looking, intelligent, have a good personality. I am good looking (so they say) have a great singing voice, am over average intelligent, and am an artist (and I have a good personality - it only shows when people are in need...). So you see, different people have different talents and qualities, and that doesn't mean they're less than you or that you would ever be considered less than them. Or vice versa; they being more than you or you being more than them.
Treat those people as equals. Like Bono once wisely said - yes, sometimes he can be wise :o I'm as shocked as you are :p - "We're one, but we're not the same." Think about that.
2007-05-12 08:03:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can go through life feeling superior. That is your choice. However, your life won't be happy. It sounds like you had kind of a hard high school / middle school experience. Why don't you use this to your advantage - become a motivational speaker for teens who are going through the same things you went through. Show them they can make it and that it all works out well. As for feeling superior - you should know that every girl I know may like hot guys, but the sweet, kind eyed guys we will stay with forever. Just FYI. Good luck in life.
2007-05-12 08:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by SweetiePie26 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-05 18:05:50 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too am convinced i am better than everyone, it has some serious negatives like feeling
the world is being lost to a bunch of breeding idiots, even if its a ugly fat ginger thing, she still feels the need to have many ugly babies without a thought for the world, and of course she easily found a equally stupid drunk male to breed with her.
and its generally very annoying to be around people that are so instinctively adept to this chavy society of mindless scumbag animal bacterias. but yeah i like to feel the love too. bla bla
2014-05-13 08:21:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am glad you've recognized this as a problem and are seeking help for it.
Read about what God thinks of you. He thinks you're great - but not superior. He loves everyone just as much as He loves you. He doesn't like the good looking people any more or any less than those who are not good looking. He looks at your HEART. Ever see Shallow Hal? That's what God sees.
Also, read about who you are and where you got what you have. Read about your utter dependence on God, especially the verse below.
1 Corinthians 4:6-7
...Then you will not take pride in one man over against another. For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
"These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren." ( Prov. 6:16-19).
"Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." (1Cor 10: 12).
"God resists the proud but He gives grace to the humble". (James 4:6).
2007-05-12 08:05:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋