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So long, and thanks for all the Fish.

Written by Paul B. at 25 Jul 2002 12:58:40:

As an answer to: James-thanks for replies written by James at 25 Jul 2002 02:38:21:

> It may seem that I'm more patient than others, but I've lived with this for ages.

Patience is commendable, however it is learned. Occasional impatience is essential, but those who permit impatience to rule them, suffer a life of great misery, and those who are circumcised on that account, no exception.

> May i also ask, i went to a site which said stretching can cause further damage, so i'm still a bit hesitant.

Perhaps you had better quote the reference for the site (URL), and we can critique it in detail for you. Remember that the veracity (truth factor) of the Internet is barely 20% or so.

> I should also say that I'm am extremely insecure person, and going to anyone to talk about this is extremely embarassing for me ( gp ). I'm sure im not the only one in this forum who gets embarassed easily?

Hard to say. Most of the persistent commentators here are much older and consequently, more experienced. At your age, you tend to suffer from the delusion that the (apparent) combined knowledge of your peers is more than your own. We know that in retrospect, few if any knew as much as we did, if indeed, as much, and the combined intelligence of many fools is no greater than one fool.

Embarrassment is after all, the presumption of inferiority, you see.


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