Can’t imagine how I’d remember all the sensible things I’ve ever heard and then rank them for degree of sensibility and pick out the one with the highest rating. But a sensible thing would have to be this: “Chop wood, carry water.”
@FutureMemory Yes, I’d done something really, really awful and stupid and out of character and was experiencing a psychological crash as I tried to come to terms with being the sort of person I didn’t think I was. My GP, who I knew reasonably well, was very good and he chose his words carefully…
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead…...well, it’s actually graphite (an allotrope of carbon) but that doesn’t work nearly as well.
I love it when I have an answer to my own question. :)
“If we all watched a writer who loved the writen words we’d all understand the meaning of true love.”
We have the most sensible of community leaders here, in @augustlan. In response to Josie’s question about his question disappearing, she wrote:
After some PMing back and forth, it appears we did accidentally remove the question without notifying @josie. I humbly apologize for the error. I’ve offered to either send it back to him for editing or he can ask it again as a new question.
“Learn how to type and you will always have a job.”
My grandfather gave me this advice when I was in second grade (well before the onset of computers). He gave me a typewriter and taught me how to type then. He was right and my skills on the typewriter meant I was even faster on a computer keyboard. Even in this day and age, I can type much, much faster than most of my colleagues. Knowing how to type allowed me to finish my master’s thesis. My first job out of college was as a typist and the organization promoted me to two more positions of progressive responsibility. I got to type on the first desktop computers in the early 1980s and was then able to transfer that to early desktop publishing. Now I write grants, papers and other documents and I have been doing it for so long that I am rarely intimidated by the size of the project and can just dig in and “get er done.”
“Find a partner you can talk to, because we all sag eventually.” – high school biotech teacher. It worked, though we’re not exactly at sagging stage anyway.
When I was a teen I sorta had anger problems, and I had this habit of throwing things and breaking them. Once my dad got all fed up and he’s like, breaking shit isn’t going to help you fix shit. It was pretty epic lol.