COMMON SENSE. THE LESS COMMON OF THE SENSES

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This phrase attributed to Voltaire, many times turns through my head. This happens when I see people who act in ways that seem irrational to me. My children tell me that what happens is that I am old and I look for the negative side of everything. I must admit that with the passage of time my actions are more restrained, I think about it more before acting, I evaluate different scenarios to decide accordingly. I think that this is part of common sense and that it becomes stronger as we age and therefore we face new experiences, which make us learn new behaviors and ways of seeing things. See people who carry out actions such as the one you can see in the photo, people who manipulate a tool or machinery without using the necessary security elements, people who go out for a walk at night through a dangerous neighborhood, displaying jewelry or a tall cell phone cost, and thus among other things, that indicate that they do not act judiciously, that is, they do not use common sense. And as the phrase says, I think that few people make use of common sense, making it the least common of the senses. What about your use of common sense in your everyday life?