Understanding wisdom
Some days emptying your bowels can be a difficult task. Constipation is not nice, to say the least. One can be sitting in the loo and spend a good fifteen minutes and have no success. An episode once in a while is no cause for alarm; you must have reduced your fluid intake or had little fibre in your diet. Regular episodes though is worth investigating and treating because of the consequences, one of which is haemorrhoids (aka piles). By straining too much we add pressure around the blood vessels around the anus which could lead to painless bleeding when passing poo, swelling around the anus, pain and discomfort and lead to further complications. Prevention is better than cure, so instead of straining for long periods of time, it is better to take a break, take appropriate medications or measures and come back. This would be the wise thing to do unless you really love piles, then be my guest and strain. Seems obvious to do the wise thing as the consequences are so clear, but we tend to forget about wisdom in different parts of our life.
Many people complain about their problems and yet in their own way they continue to strain only resulting in the same problem if not worse. Applying the same method to achieve different goals is silly and unwise. The Arabs use wisdom and justice interchangeably and understand the two concepts as ‘putting things in the right places’; putting strain during childbirth is wise and so is putting the strain on the last rep of your workout. Putting the strain on your anus; a no-no. This approach will yield the best possible outcomes as understood through a person’s value system. To be able to put things in the right place one needs to pre-requisitely have the following:
- Know what the things are
- Know what the places are
- Know which things fit in which places
- Know how to put things in their right place
- Knowing the consequences of putting things in the wrong places
There is one thing which is also fundamental
- Knowing when you don’t know
Clearly, knowledge is required to be wiser. But knowing that you don’t know, knowing that you are limited in your scope, really is the true essence of wisdom. Things usually come in pairs – before you know something, you had to unknow it. When you know something it also tells you what else you don’t know. The trap in which many people fall into is that they think that whatever they know is all that is to be known – and that’s bull-poo.
So the person that keeps doing the same thing to achieve different results but only ends up with the same undesired ones, is just a person caught up in their arrogance, fear and stupidity because they think that whatever they are doing is all that can be done. They’re putting the strain in the wrong way or wrong place. Instead of not straining they complain about their lack of poo. The deeper and sadder part is that this becomes so routine they forget about what it is like to poo at all, and start defining their lives by their poo-less status and actually enjoy it. The idea of succeeding in poo-ing causes them to be anxious! Because what purpose will there be left in their lives?! Do us all a favour, don’t make a martyr out of your anus and try some laxatives.
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