Anoher rage: when you're all calm and enjoying things and something from the past comes back and bites you
RAGE: Past self.
I've done a lot of stupid things in the past,and said amount of stupid things is just getting larger,I thought I'd get wiser as I get older but I just keep doing stupid things or saying stupid stuff.
I'll probably stop doing stupid stuff by the time it no longer matters. (Being so old that even if I did want to do something stupid I couldn't.)
Coincidence these two rage posts are right next to each other?
That shit happens to me on a daily basis. Something causes your memory to go back to something painful, humiliating, stupid and you just
cringe.
@blazing glory
Welcome to my realization of about ~8 years ago. I thought I'd get smarter, savvier. Nope. Foot still regularly goes in mouth. Things that seemed appropriate two hours ago are seen for what they are: rash action. Maybe it's all the posting on the internet that makes up a lot of my social interaction these days, where I've managed to at least filter more of the stupid than I do in real life, that lends a false perception of control over my own stupid. Probably not much more, as anyone here can attest.
Point is, there is no wisdom event horizon. Every day is a chance to screw up, or not screw up. Recovered alcoholics will tell you they never quit alcohol, that it's an every day battle. I feel like being stupid, rash, insensitive, whatever, as a self-aware person is much the same thing. It's a trap you can always walk into. The wisdom event horizon isn't never saying something or doing something you're going to regret. It's a state of eternal vigilance against your own stupid. It's a subtle but important difference. You will never get rid of your own stupid, it will always be with you. But you learn to go through life checking yourself instead of trying to check everyone around you. Which you fail at, over and over again, or maybe even quit altogether. It's the Dark Souls of Life.