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Phrase: Be your own worst enemy
Sometimes, even though you bend over backwards trying to prevent someone from having problems, they always get into trouble because they are their own worst enemy.
You can try, but some people just can’t be helped.
When someone is their own worst enemy, they cause most of the problems and difficulties that they have.
Let’s call it a character flaw.
For one reason or another, some people are destined to have difficulties.
I’m sure you’ve met or at least heard of someone who always does stupid things and suffers as a result.
I chose today’s picture to illustrate this point.
Camera lenses are very expensive, and most photographers try to treat them delicately.
The guy in the picture, for some reason, decided to hold his out over a gorge to take a picture of it.
Why?
Who in their right mind would do something like that?
Murphy’s law states that anything which can go wrong will go wrong.
If that’s true, and I believe it is, why tempt fate?
Now, as was easily predictable, he’s dropped it.
This is almost a textbook definition of what it means to be your own worst enemy.
It’s true that we all do silly things sometimes.
We have all made a mistake that created only more work for ourselves or cost more money than it should have.
Again, Murphy’s Law affects us all.
For people who are their own worst enemies, making mistakes isn’t a rarity, it’s par for the course.
Something in their character makes them tragic figures.
We could say that they can’t win for losing.
Every time things seem to be going right, they do something to screw it all up.
There’s not much we can do for them except hope that it’s only a temporary state of affairs which, like tantrums and old clothes, they will eventually grow out of.
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