Human life is a journey of interaction with different kinds of people, all of whom we can not retain in our memory all the time. But there are some people whom we can not forget, how hard we try. Why does this happen? Perhaps these guys are different from others. These are not normal people yet they are among the normal people. They behave differently and some times they act strangely. In fact interaction with these guys may happen through their genius prowess which translates their pain and agony, joy and happiness into the form of poetry, music, painting, story or novel, and films. They may be the genius who makes great strides in Science, Technology and Mathematics.
However, it is very difficult to define what a genius is. Even geniuses of the highest order such as Albert Einstein, WolfGang MoZart, D.H.Lawrence, Henry Moore, and many others found it difficult to answer the question of the self, and perhaps the observation of themselves in search of these answers have led them to the achievements.
According to Puzant Kevork Thomajan, "True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of genie”. But, it is for definite that a genius breaks the boundaries of common thought to take our sensibility or technology to new mindscapes, resulting in a giant leap of the mankind as a whole.
The problem actually occurs when a whole community of ‘commons’ find it hard to understand, relate and communicate to these special people. Scientists have been striving to correlate mental illness with eminent creative individuals, who have a much higher rate of manic depression, or bipolar disorder, than does the general population.
They found artists to be more similar in personality to individuals with manic depression than to healthy people using personality and temperament tests. The results have been ground breaking, as the thinking and reaction patterns of genuinely creative people and the depressive maniacs were almost similar, while it differed from the healthy people in all accounts.
The life history of John Nash, the schizophrenic mathematician who won Nobel Prize for his revolutionary studies in game theory, is a perfect example of the off track characteristics often depicted by a genius written in his biography “The beautiful mind”. The kind of seclusion they face is revealed by the inner stories from the Nobel committee, which had delayed his recognition for the sole reason that he was mentally unfit. There are instances by shocked classmates saying that they had totally kept away from the "The Ghost of Fine Hall” as he was called those days, and were only able to understand his passionate language of numbers and equations many years later.
There are umpteen number of stories written about several geniuses and have become the part of the human history, yet common human is unable to understand and regard these special people in the society. It is only when these people gets recognize we rise above our commonness to show our gratitude towards these special people. We do not know how many geniuses in our society among ourselves without recognition face dejection when they are not able to communicate like one of the commoners. Society always treats these superlative geniuses as an odd and sub human beings.
But in fact, this is what they are. Even if they try hard they can not behave as the normal human being as the society more often expects them to be. It is for the society to understand them and treat them equal in their early life. Else many more geniuses will have to see the disgrace.
Meanwhile Science is striving to decode these minds that keep on creating miracles. It is time the society should learn this new language to accept the super brains and adapt to the incomprehensible and ever changing world ruled by them.
