Are intellectuals the most gloomy people ?!

Are intellectuals the most gloomy people ?!

We have a mental image that intellectuals are depressed individuals and feel that they are suffering from depression and here are the increasing demands and advice that you let the reading and culture and enjoy your life you will not live only once Do not waste that life in the education of yourself and knowledge and its consequences are terrible and you will only find yourself a miserable person Suffering from depression, alienating you from people, and even may be an example to others who wish to withdraw towards you and their fate will be as miserable as you!

That mental image takes root day after day in the hands of many people and even publish and support them by giving examples of people close to them and how they became miserable because of their knowledge and reading!

I remember that one day I was with a group of friends and during our walk we found a man who looked handsome but looked mad. We all ignored him except for a friend of mine who went to talk to him and understand his story. He learned that he graduated from the Faculty of Science. And how well he is a good follower of all the developments that occur on the world stage, but has been frustrated and despair of what is happening because he believes that "No benefit"!

Are intellectuals really miserable? Or as Mutanabi said:

The mind is suffering in the bliss of his mind *** And brother ignorant in torment enjoy.

What is the reason for that ?!

Before we look for the reason we first understand who is the intellectual? What is frustration and despair?

In order to understand the relationship between culture and frustration and despair, we must first realize that in some cases, those who are preoccupied with the big issues and who bear the burden of change for the better on their own, are free of the excesses of things and sacrifice their happiness and enjoyment of material manifestations for their ultimate goal. Despair and frustration, it starts with frustration and then brings us to the point of surrender and a sense of helplessness and the desire for convergence.

The intellectual in our knowledge is the person who has a lot of information and knowledge to know a lot, but how to get educated from being a person who carries a lot of science to a frustrated person ?!

In this case the role of the intellectual is to collect the greatest amount of information and culture and has a heavy stock of this information and the problem comes when he begins to recognize the reality surrounding it and the extent of the crisis and then look at the outcome of his knowledge and culture and does not know how to benefit from that science to change the bad situation begins A feeling that he is unable to contribute to change and that all these readings have no value and then surrender to feelings of frustration, despair and self-containment.

So what is the solution to prevent ourselves from slipping into despair?

Do we refrain from reading and taking care of issues of society, progress and civilization, and indulge in the management of our daily lives ?!

Of course, this is not a solution. The right solution is to be aware and know how to use that information properly and properly so that we can use it to make our reality better and to seek to build a just society that is not like an ass carrying travel.

We have a lot of information and knowledge but do not know how to use it or take advantage of it and then we just become stores of information!

So that we do not fall into the so-called "blues of intellectuals" to abandon the illusion of culture and have the true culture that Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq said: that culture is to use what is known in the formation of an integrated concept of the world around you and how to deal with it.