“You Can’t Cure Stupid”
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“You can’t cure stupid”- Dr. Cat, life-long friend and knower of where all the bodies are buried.
I love this phrase.
Straight to the point. Right on the mark. Bulls-eye. (Also all great)
Dr. Cat, besides being one of my closest friends and God-mother to Baby Lug, is one of the finest diagnosticians working, IMHO. She works at a rural New England hospital and the stories she shares are eye-opening. So often she and her colleagues comes up against the worst symptom– stupidity– they coined the phrase “You can’t cure stupid.”
And, you know what, it’s true.
You can help, inform, teach, prescribe, order, ticket, punish but in the end it’s about individual free will. The 6oolb person, dieting to save their lives, upset they’re not losing more weight since they’ve cut back on their 2nd liter of Coke for breakfast. Or one so freaked out about lumps they refuse to go to the doctor until the fire department has to breakdown the door to take them to the hospital.
WTF?
Look, I write a lot about improving. Life. Health. Thought. But if someone is hell-bound to keep on keepin’ on the path of self-destruction then what can anyone do?
Nothing.
“Time to smarten up.” – Your Dad.
Another great phrase. Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom before we are willing to stop being stupid. I did, at least with my health. And believe you me, that is a daily work in progress. We’re all stupid about something. We’re all (metaphorically) the 600lb person on something. I’m not implying you, or I for that matter, are in dire way, but we all aren’t perfect either.
I guess we all have to look at what we do on a daily basis and ask ”Am I being stupid” here? This could apply to health, relationships, money, etc. Probably something you don’t want to ask yourself. You know what I’m talking about. It’s there. Festering and sapping your energy in one way or another- physically or mentally.
Can you cure it? Get the help you need? Slow things down? Talk to someone? Write it down? Walk it out? Pick a wiser choice? Turn yourself around?
Only you can cure your own stupidity.
“Stupid is as stupid does.” – Forrest Gump.
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Herds three kids through life. Mainlines all things media, including questionable TV. SCUBA diver that longs to hang-ten.
I love this, and I agree. Often times I’ll be in a conversation with someone I’ve just met, at a party or playground, and all of a sudden it occurs to me: “Wait, this person is stupid!” That’s when I bow out of the conversation and leave. Really no need to continue the dialogue. But, yes, we all are stupid about something. I know I’m stupid about how I handle my 3 yo sometimes. I know I should not react to things, and yet I react every time. Stupid. But, in life, I’ve found that I am much more tolerant of my stupid then your stupid.
Wait… was that you? At the park?
I agree with your last point that we are so much more forgiving with ourselves than with others. Then again, we can fix our particular kind of stupidity, not others.
Thanks…today was a good day for this.
I really believe the planets are off. I and most I know with offspring dragging friends, are struggling to keep the normal flow of things just that. Now, however, we have May. Good-weather-lets-get-everything-scheduled-we-couldn’t-during-the-semi-crappy-months done sort of schedule keeps us from the brink of drowning in self pity.
Me? Stupid? No!! Say it isn’t so….
Honestly? Let me count the ways. I have used that same phrase myself. “Am I being really stupid here?” My husband and I, both sitting in front of our computers, more or less happily ignoring each other. Are we being “stupid”? Yes! We are in complete agreement on that!