Random musing for the day...

....If common sense is so common, then why do so few people have it?


It is almost like an oxymoron..."common" and "sense" ... they don't really go together, do they? I just find it so strange when someone does something stupid, then another person says, "Common sense should have told you not to do that." Well if common sense is indeed, common, as the saying goes, then it would not be in such short supply. And why is it that only when a person does something WRONG, that the term "common sense" comes into play? I don't think I have ever heard a person congratulate someone for using their common sense. You see, when a person does something right or good or particularly clever, they are congratulated for using their brain or their head, or they are told, "good thinking!" It is almost like common sense has come to have a negative connotation, because you are always hearing it in a negative context...."You have no common sense.".... "Common sense should have told you that that was wrong!" ... "Didn't you use any common sense before you tried to do that?"... and so on and so forth. So much for common sense. Maybe they should just drop the "common" right off of it and refer to it as just plain "sense" from now on. Now, that would make more sense!