Serious side effects can occur that can be serious. You might start to question things. You might annoy your parents, friends, parents’ friends. You might ruin dinner parties, cocktail parties, political parties. You might start spouting information to strangers waiting in line for the bathroom. You may seem smarter, you may feel smarter, you may indeed be smarter.
You might not have all the answers. But you may be okay with uncertainty. You might even begin reciting lines of poetry when it’s appropriate, and when it’s not. You may experience a sudden desire to read other things; cereal boxes, vitamin containers, and the bumper stickered rear end of an aging hippie’s Vanagon.
You might start saying intelligent things, shocking people who come in contact with you. Not literal contact, since that’s no longer a part of civilized society. Although should you learn lessons in European etiquette, you may be compelled to kiss two or more cheeks.
Seriously.
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