Parable Bias

A very wise man once told me that “you don’t increase your own security by increasing the insecurity in others”.

That same wise man later blew his last million dollars on drugs and prostitutes over the course of one single, glorious year, and he’s now  living destitute out of friends’ garages.

He does seem to have secured his own insecurity without resorting to the attenuation of the same by others.

It appears that wisdom and self-destruction aren’t mutually exclusive. People can articulate profound truths but still fail to live by them.

Also, security may not lie in external conditions at all. Maybe my wise friend found a strange internal peace through radical detachment.

The line between insight and delusion is thin, and sometimes the only difference is timing.