thinking about thinking

i was in the ladies tonight, when i overheard two other girls come in, and use the cubicles on either side of me. well, it wasn't as if i was trying to eavesdrop[they WERE talking on either side of me] but ms left was saying something about her being the stupid one and still having hope for some fella and well,
ms right: yeah lor, why you so stupid, give up already mah!
ms left: yeah lah... i think i very stupid you know. i think hor, being stupid is the worst thing to be in this century man! and even more jialat is when you KNOW you're stupid but you still be stupid!

even though what was said was probably in jest or light hearted self-depreciation masking whatever ms left was really feeling, but what she said did strike me. not in the sense of her situation per se, but rather, when she said the worst thing to be at this point of time is stupid. she probably put into a joke what i'd been feeling for a while now. this growing emphasis to be smart, or at least, be one of those "thinking" types, if you get what i mean, where you've got an idea or an opinion on everything. my question is, when did people start getting so open about telling others what their interpretation of everything is?

and,when did people start looking DOWN on those who didn't have an opinion, who don't read scrolls and scrolls into a single incident?

Scary, isn't it? personally, it isn't anything great to think bout stuff, bout how the world works, or why, or what it means when people act a certain way. hey, chances are, you're an unhappy sod sitting at starbucks staring into space thinking himself further into depression trying to find the ideal way of life in this screwed up world. i don't think having streams and streams of thoughts constantly pouring into your head is necessarily a good thing. i know a few simple-minded people who don't take a look at a fashion magazine and wonder what the state of female insecutity is, and hey! they're living, i can safely say, happier lives than a lot.

a lot of the time, these 'thinkers' for the lack of a better word, think up a storm about things that don't remotely have any effect on their own lives and start getting upset over it. and finding middle ground to be content with, discarding the "less important" [and usually more upsetting] parts isn't exactly the simpliest task on the block, either.

an argument in favour of them, i suppose, could be that the roughing it out in one's head and finding resolution for oneself is in itself reward and pleasure enough. that is true, but is that necessarily GREATER reward and pleasure than someone who takes pleasure in the simple things in life, at face value?

i'm sure each has its moments of glory, i'm just not so sure if thinking someone else is lesser than you are because of what he thinks, or worse, because he doesn't think about it at all, is really a nice thing to do.

sigh. i guess this is just the way the world rotates.