A ray dimly pierces thunderheads of the night,
Red, the crimson morning
Crawls into being
Batterd of the lightning in the night
Rivaled the sun in fractions of seconds,
Yet too extreme, the black void flooded back in.
Red sky at night, sailors’ delight,
Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
I think this means your “smart” friends aren’t as smart as they seem. You know what, I just stopped trying and stopped going to the wrong places. Smart people don’t hang out randomly in bars because obviously most people there are dumdums. I use that time to code and get smarter. Don’t listen to average people trying to gaslight you about “social skills” if they were smart they’d know how to talk to you. Be yourself and say what you want. Average people may get triggered because they will feel like dumdums after hearing your socratic seminar and that’s your filter, that’s how you know they’re a dummy. You can try to enlighten the masses until you tire of wasting your energy playing piano for cows.