That is the comment I got last week as I traversed the different social corridors meeting with my friends. I couldn’t come to understand how I was the cause of obesity. How? None the less, I will not fall to your antagonism. I am going to be impartial and indifferent.
As much as I hid from it, the comment had some truth to it. See, when we have a friend with the weight common to our eyes, we never really care until they fall prey to the never ending “lose-the-weight” campaigns and adverts that bombard their radios and television screens daily. Lose this and that and gain this and that. Then we are suddenly all curious about what happened; and we start making never ending comments and ask questions. What do you expect the other party to do? Keep the weight or follow the trend and lose the weight?
The blame game has always been in play since the garden of Eden, the man blames the woman, the woman – the snake and the snake – the family dog.
Ignorance can be such a menace and even have disastrous effects when exhibited to the general public. The old proverb always tickled me as it lurked around like a bad aura, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt“
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue. Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding – Proverbs 17:28.
How could one escape the set trap that opened its mouth to engulf all who dared to look into its “bottomlessness”. But how could I even start argue? The wises of them all – Solomon had lamented at the increase of know. He made the most outstanding discourse. His conclusion,
“Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”
I was innocent and was being accused. I salute the chops.
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