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“A fool will always come calling.”

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<note for today: we all have a little fool within us>

I will begin by saying ‘fool’ is a tough word to direct toward yourself. The definition of fool is: those who have the quality or condition of being ignorant and confused about matters, or those employed in making jests about the general circumstances of ignorance and confusion which exists among people.

Well. Here is a truth. It is just part of Life that our inner fool will always come calling at some point.

If you are honest with yourself you will realize at some time, at some point, you will discover you have engaged in some foolish acts or foolish thinking and <foolishly> made the appropriate internal justifications to convince yourself that you aren’t a fool.

Don’t beat yourself up.

Don’t fight it.

Stop investing energy justifying your actions.

We all have a fool inside us.

I actually file a part of this thought under the whole ‘managing regrets’ topic.

If you assume the fool inside you is always fighting to get out and do something foolish then it is a waste of time to regret doing foolish things. Well. At least you shouldn’t invest a lot of energy beating the crap out of yourself for ‘being a fool’, but instead pay attention to managing your inner fool. Yes. Don’t ignore it, but manage it.

Don’t act like “well, that is not me so that is atypical behavior” because, as I said, it is you – it is typical you. You just have to recognize that you do have an inner fool who wants to enjoy Life.  Personally I think its silly to not admit it and even a little silly to not actually embrace the fact. Why? Purposefully ignoring truth because maybe you are afraid of accepting the truth means your inner fool is managing you rather than you managing your inner fool.

Well. That sounds like a fool to me.

I would suggest this  is all about assuming responsibility for all aspects of who you are — the fool and the non-fool is part of who you are and what you do.

And, yes, you are a fool if you deceive yourself into believing this is not true <or you do not have a fool within you>.

Look. If you accept this thought, then maybe you will end up understanding only a fool seeks answers and it is the wise who seek the questions.

In constantly seeking the right questions your inner fool cannot deceive you.

You will probably be less gullible.

You are probably more likely to see things as they really are.

You will probably have your own opinion <rather than just use other people’s opinions>.

You will probably better recognize what makes you happy.

You will probably be deceived less by the illusion of what Life may be cluttering your life with … and see more clearly within the moment.

You will probably manage regrets significantly better because of focusing on ‘regret’ you will focus on ‘did I ask the right questions?’

And, probably, you will live a life a little closer to whatever ‘truth’ is … and that ain’t a bad place to reside <even if it can be an uncomfortable place to reside on occasion>.

Life cannot be planned in a way that is fool proof. At best you can just keep on asking the right questions and adapting.

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

Douglas Adams

I bet this quote was said thinking about how outside fools affect your design. Instead maybe we should think of this with our ‘inner fool’ in mind.

That said I think we often underestimate the ingenuity of our inner fool. Ponder that <or risk looking foolish>

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