Thursday, June 25, 2015

Common Sense

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Nico, Daddy and Christopher enjoying a summer/spring day

June 25, 2015

I’m in the prime of my life. I’m supposed to be smarter, wiser, and overall getting better with age. What do they say, “aging like fine wine”?

Sure I’m still stuck in my ways that I have gown accustomed to when I was a child. My parents installed my values, like I would hard wire a stereo system in my car, as a young child and those values morphed in my own beliefs that I have learned from trial and error and common sense.

Common sense is really all one needs though isn’t it? I mean we don’t rob banks. That’s common sense, because we should know that robbing a bank will lead to jail and jail, from what we see in the movies, is a horrible place.

I should realize eating this donut is bad for me. For crying out loud, it’s dough, made in a bowl of flour, fried, in oil, and sprinkled or stuffed with artificial sweets. Common sense tells me to stay away from it but the other common sense tells me don’t be an idiot of course eat it. This common sense is so hard to deal with at times.

Common sense tells me don’t jump off of high places without a parachute. Common sense also tells me that unless the plane is crashing don’t jump out of the perfectly good airplane. Here common sense breaks even. Because jumping out of a plane with a parachute is one persons’ nightmare and another’s adrenaline rush.

Can common sense be learned? I hope my two sons’ learn common sense. But I don’t want them to learn common sense that something is hot by touching it. I want that common sense to derive from me telling them t’s hot or if they feel the heat radiating from fire or heating element.

Sometimes I think that now, at the ages of 5 and 7, they haven’t learned common sense. Jumping in a pool with your good clothes on doesn’t make sense. Jumping in a pool on a hot humid Florida day makes perfect sense. I suppose if I was mad and jokingly said to them, “Ah, go jump in a lake” and they actually did I should be worried that they are lacking common sense.

Using a bike helmet at their age is good common sense and great practice but as a child I never wore a helmet and even though now that wouldn’t make sense, it did at that time. So the good thing is we can learn common sense.  Like using car seats and seatbelts. They save lives and although not used back in the 60’s and 70’s its common sense to use them now.


It’s good to know now that I’m in the prime of my life and “aging like fine wine” that I have common sense. Common sense should be part of the 5 human senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. I hope as my kids’ age, they to will have the common sense to coincide with their age. And hopefully they will have the common sense to take care of me when I’m old and gray.


                                                        




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