Ode to You Stubborn Cusses

This will not be news to most of you. Change is up to the person who wishes it.
My mind was on this topic as I drove home this morning. I think we have all had the experience of having an issue presented to us by another. We listen. Offer whatever advice we have if it seems appropriate to do so. I have done this and immediately thereafter realized I had just wasted my time and breath. Rinse. Repeat.

Not wasted in the sense of begrudgment. You are all welcome to my two cents worth. Sometimes you get it whether you want it or not via this blog! Wasted in the sense that all you stubborn cusses are going to do what you want, when you want to do it, regardless of the brilliance, righteousness and appropriateness of my wisdom.

Do you all know this? No I think not because I'm asked for my advice often. Come on!!! Admit it you really don't care what I think (even my loved ones). You just want me to listen and agree with your intended stubborn cuss course of action or inaction. Sigh, what a waste of my brilliance.

Let's discuss my loved ones as they are among the most stubborn cusses I have ever had the dubious pleasure to know. (Yes I love these people)
You all are aggravating as hell. I'm singling out no one here as the merry go round of aggravation stops at various places at various times such that all of you bug the hell out of me regularly.

I'm asked advice on rice, gardening (this may be punishment for all my sinnin'), animal husbandry (including dog psychiatry!), ailments of all kinds ( let's make this perfectly clear, I'll dress up as a nurse in the shortest uniform ever and play doctor with you but as far as real doctorin well I can blow my nose and wipe your ass if need be, but that is the extent of it!!), relationship issues (irony abounds does it not my Brother?) money probs, children situations, business dealings, study habits, apartment hunting, house hunting, and the list goes on!!

And as diverse as all these inquiries are, what they have in common is the end result of my efforts to address them. Absolutely nada. No matter what I say it goes in one ear and out the other. Now I have decently polite friends and loved ones and they are usually grateful for wasting my time but still proceed to do EXACTLY as they were going to prior to getting all up in my face.

I'm really not sure what to do about this. Got any advice?

Options

I answered this question a while back. 'what are you going to do?' What followed were some accusations that I suppose were my options. Thinking about the accusations I realized I would need another option than those given. Why? Because flinging unfounded accusations about can indicate mental instability.

So for my safety I've chosen a different option. I answered the question on my own terms. I'm living life now on my own terms. And I have to say it feels great. I may not have all the answers but I do have options.