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Stupidity Should Be Painful

Article Summary by: ERobinson    

Original Author: Elizabeth Robinson
Why my life always seems to carry so much stress is beyond me... and quite frustrating. Sunday, I hurt someone that means
a lot to me by my careless actions, and now he needs time to consider or reconsider the nature of our relationship. Yesterday, the motor on my car blew up due to the careless "oil changers" somehow putting ten quarts of oil in my car. Now I am dealing with them attempting to get $6200 to replace the motor. Tomorrow, I am meeting with the lawyers handling my fathers death, due to his careless nurse overdosing him. Carelessness is crap... and we are surrounded by it. I read a bumper sticker today that said " Stupidity should be painful." I had to laugh... because carelessness is stupidity, and carelessness IS painful.
I am sick of carelessness, yet I am guilty of it myself. Wouldn't the world be a much nicer place if there was no such thing? I know that my world would be.
I want to share some found quotes...
The mistaken belief that all difficulties will vanish if we simply ignore them.
To ignore the shadows of things is to drift inexorably into carelessness.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally
lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Samuel Johnson
All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths,
both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or
carelessness. Michael Ende
Enough carelessness... I will work on being thoughtful... because my carelessness is painful.
Published: March 30, 2007
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