Kora Musician Baba the Storyteller

I posted previously about Fools and being Foolish. While I was completing that writing, another one of the proverbs dealing with fools and foolishness popped into my head. As they say, “there is no proverb without an occasion.”

My only regret is that, over the years, I didn’t document all of those words of wisdom I heard or read. They seem to just make visits now when the occasion calls for them to. Maybe I should be happy that they have integrated themselves into my life. That would be a more positive way of looking at it.

Anyway, here is the proverb:

“It is a fool whose own tomatoes are sold back to him.”

Just as I’ve said previously, proverbs are multidimensional. These works exist on many levels of understanding. I, personally, enjoy the understanding that each of us possess unique gifts and qualities and that, when you seek others to tell you, or give you what you already possess, you are, in essence having your own tomatoes sold back to you.

“Dooni dooni kononi bè nyaga da.”