MONTAIGNE/AUSTEN ESSAY

     There seems to be a thin line between intelligence and a disorder called ADHD. How do you know if you're just plain smart or actually have a disorder? Well you can have a doctor answer that.  For some people, they're always thinking. We all know our thoughts always lead to another thought. Sometimes we don't even understand why. It's like when you're having a conversation with your best friend. You eventually stop and realize, "Wait. How did we even get on this topic?" The hard part is getting our thoughts out in the first place. David Foster Wallace brought out a good point.
     Mr. Wallace said that all our thoughts are connected and too fast for us to even write down or say to another person, even ourselves. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne is a perfect example of that. He wrote these essays as an experiment, a sort of test. He was interested in human beings and learning about himself. So of course he's going to write down his thoughts, it's philosophical. Philosophy is the study of fundamental nature. He simply wanted to understand .There was no specific point of his book. He wrote about anything and everything. He wrote about what he understood, what he didn't understand. It made the whole book seem natural.
     The essays were in a sense, like looking into his mind. He would write down what he thought at that moment. The next it might be something totally off basis. He didn't have one certain style of writing. He wrote to be noticed by the people of his time. When he was alive, the people around him were a bit robotic. They had set custom, that everyone followed. They all thought the same way. He wrote the essays to show them that it's okay to think in a different nature. It's okay to not agree with everyone else. Work harder to improve yourself and in the long run improve other people.
     To be completely honest, I did not see a comparison to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She wrote about fictional characters and Montaigne wrote about reality. The only resemblance I see is Elizabeth's struggle to have any type of feeling for Mr. Darcy. The book was from Elizabeth's point of view so it contained many of her beliefs, feelings and thoughts. Much like Michel's. They both learned about oneself and viewpoints turned and twisted into completely new opinions. So I guess the only comparison I found was judgement of oneself. Elizabeth had to get over her prejudice and Michel wanted to learn from his actions and thoughts.
      In conclusion, Michel and David do not have ADHD. They are simply and beautifully intelligent. Their minds are too fast for them to get every single point across. Their thoughts too connected to just have one thought per reality. Sure what they write may seem confusing but maybe they're just having a hard time writing it down.