Wit. It is defined as an intellectual humor, a witty remark, a keenness and quickness of perception or discernment, or the natural ability to perceive and understand. Since I was able to differentiate intelligent from the wise, I have been calling myself a witty person. Branding people as they pass, labeling them even when I don't mean to. It has become a habit. A very bad habit.
In the movie, I saw a scholar struggling and seeking to be considered and treated as a human being. However, all she has gotten from her health care professionals, mainly the doctors, is the treatment of a research subject - a guinea pig. She was treated the way she treated her students when she was still teaching. The only person to have been compassionate enough was the nurse. Well, there was also her former graduate school teacher who visited her from time to time, but that was different from the nurse's care for her. It made me see who I was through the eyes of another, and I realized, I was treating people for who I perceive they are rather than for who they really are.
Wit is good when it is applied on poetry, but it doesn't really help on being human.
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