by Tosh » Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:48 pm
Just to add, I remember a particularly angry man telling me that I 'couldn't fix a broken brain with a broken brain'.
And I remember taking offence that he was inferring that I was 'broken brained'. Okay, okay, I was 'broken brained', and I still am to some extent (none of us are perfect), but the idiot telling me was obviously broken brained too.
There's a way to be helpful and there's ways to be offensive; some of these one-liners are just daft, often spouted by someone who isn't smart enough to use their own experience to help, so just regurgitate what they think passes for wisdom.
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” Rumi (No sniggering from the sex addicts)