God's fools

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”

 Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”

 Moliere

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There is no fool like an old fool

Except a young fool

I think perhaps we are all a little bit foolish at times

The moment comes for wisdom, and poof

Wisdom is gone

The time comes to keep ones mouth shut

And we pander on and on

Making ourselves a burden

How does the saying go?

But to remain silent and be thought a fool

Than to speak and remove all doubt

There are different kinds of fools of course

I am a fool with a heart and no sense

My feelings get a hold of me, I fuse with them

And “presto”

Fool

I know better, which makes me more of a fool

I have the degrees that should make me wise and learned

and keep my words and actions sane

but no!

not me….

Some people have lots of sense, but no heart

Oh, our poor rigid, judgmental friends

Who spend their lives driven by logic

Perhaps they make fewer dumb mistake

Perhaps they do not open their mouths, and make a mess of things

But, they miss out on so much

They fail to connect

To live

To love

Perhaps what is true

Is that we are all fools in one way or another

Driven by a need for control

Or a need for connection

Perhaps it is inevitable that we will make a fool of ourselves

In one way or another

At one time or another

I know I will

I will dump my loneliness on others in appropriate ways

I will see approval, in silly way

I will say what should not be said

And not say what should be said….

I will walk through life a hit and run driver

And thus a fool

How about you?

We are perhaps, a conspiracy of dunces (JK Toole)

But we are God’s fools

And it is better to stumble along

Seeking love

Seeking connection

Seeking hope

Seeking God

Than to sit, arms crossed and pout

In splendid isolation

I will opt for being a fool with a heart

Then a calculating asshole (fool) with no heart