the barking sage

a wise man once told me, no one no knows you better than yourself. scary, isn't it? just stop for a second and actually think about that. think of all those times you asked someone for advice, your best friend, a confidant, someone close, and to then realise that their answer or suggestion or whatever, was probably flawed or maybe even wrong, but you still went along with it. you went along, trusting their decision rather than your own. and then if you look back at those incidents and their eventual outcome, you realise that you were damn lucky you did in fact listen to them, rather then going through with your own decision. so that brings me, in a stupidly round about manner, to the main point of all this: is the wise man barking? or is there something iv been too thick to realise?