Define: Foolish

If you knew me. You'd often hear me say: "For someone who's supposedly quite smart, I do very foolish things."
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foolish |ˈfoōli sh |adjective(of a person or action) lacking good sense or judgment; unwise : it was foolish of you to enter into correspondence.• [as complement ] silly; ridiculous : he'd been made to look foolish.See note at absurd ._______________________________________________OUCH!That 'Absurd' note was defiantly below the belt. But that is what I like about dictionaries, they're impersonal. The truth is raw, lacking any hint of a complement that might lead you astray. sometimes "but that's what we like about you" does not help at all.Why do we make such fools of ourselves?Last night I was out with friends, I was having such a good time (too good of a time if you ask me). Then I notice a friend of someone I "know", a certain some that gave me the good old "I'll text you" and never did. I knew they'd be there and the carpet was just swept from under my feet. we bumped into each other but not directly like 10 times.And it happen, I eventually went to talk...I felt like such a child and not in a good way I must add. Oddly enough, I was not that interested. OK! I admit I was just lonely and did not think there would be any harm but they were so blunt and I felt so awkward.No, really! Why do we make such fools of ourselves?
I was standing there with this person, but I sort of wasn't really, if it were someone else in that situation I would have known exactly what they should've done. Correction! I would physically dragged them away from what I can only describe as 'the spot light of shame'. Thankfully, eventually, someone did.Sometimes you find friends in the oddest of places.After a long talk and walk home the sun was up my friends left. But I couldn't go to sleep, I felt like crap. In a few minutes I was in my running gear and out in the streets. It was exhausting. I saw at a distance a woman. a girl. She was running further ahead, a bit slower that myself (at least I don' run like a girl thank god!) but with resilience. She takes one step and then the other, almost vanquished but never stops and I challenged myself: I'll stop when she does. She didn't. She never let go and neither did I. I reached home without stopping once.She was a complete stranger, she had a glimpse of me when I almost overtook her as we took separate routes. She might never know, how she gave me hope.