Being a fool

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Is something we have all been at some time or another .
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Don’t be afraid to be a fool. .
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Without expressing our thoughts or maybe more accurately lack of thoughts we do not learn .
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Without making silly remarks we do not learn restraint .
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Without thinking we say the wrong things .
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With silly thoughts we betray our feelings .
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And so on for the many thousands of ways we can make fools of ourselves .
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Young people more often make fools of themselves than those who have more life experience. .
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This is good as it teaches them lessons that otherwise might never be learnt .
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How can one become wise without learning through mistakes? .
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Being a fool is not something we choose though .
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Being made a fool is not nice either .
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Most of us determine not to do whatever it was again rather than make fools of ourselves. .
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For sure none of us can be young and wise for the two do not go together very often .
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Just learning to be safe is what it is for some after being a fool they determine never to be one again .
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Pity in a way because it reduces your life to the safe and politically correct .
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Maybe better to be a fool sometimes .
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Not too often mind you .
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But there again there are two types of fools .
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Those who not very bright and cannot understand many things .
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They frequently do or say foolish things .
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And those others who without thought say or do foolish things .
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Most of us are of the second type .
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Blurting out inappropriate thoughts .
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Not thinking of others .
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Not thinking how our actions may affect them .
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Come to think of it is this foolishness or lack of thought? .
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Lack of self discipline maybe .
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Whatever way we say it if we manage to control our thoughts and actions better it would stop many of us making fools of ourselves .
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So we come around again to the importance of  learning to control our minds..
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For this is what controlling our thoughts entails
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One point on which so much of our lives depend
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It helps us to be less foolish for sure