Yes, You Can Die of Stupidity

Things you might want to do and not do to stay alive.

Remember that movie where the young kid goes on an adventure to Alaska and lives in a bus? He arrives in spring so flowers are blooming, the skies are blue and clear. He reads and journals and frolics in the fields. All is well. Gradually, winter sets in. He's not the best planner so he goes through his supplies pretty quickly. Cut to the chase: he eventually eats some plant or berry that turns out to be poisonous and he dies, alone and scared in a bus in the middle of nowhere.

Tragic.

Although this was a movie (actually I think it was based on a true story), it's a good reminder of what can happen when you make a small mistake and the consequences are dire. Naturally, we're all prone to making stupid mistakes from time to time. Hopefully, though, they aren't life-or-death mistakes and we live to learn from them and go on to do better.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Attributed to Albert Einstein

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