How to be a Fool

Unfortunately, I am an expert in this field. Equally unfortunately, one might think that if a person were an expert in foolography, one could entertain readers endlessly by regaling them with tales of their own adherence to the title of this piece, but that is not the case. Lessons in foolishness are quite painful, embarrassing, often devastatingly mortifying, and I, as a nearly pathologic optimist, am too eager to leave my school-of-hard-knocks-learned-lessons behind in their own ignominy.
In actuality, I believe I am doing myself as well as my (potential) readers a disservice by leaving out the bad parts of my life. They are the very best learning I have received. Why can I not share them with people to give them a chance to learn as I have? Because people wouldn't believe someone could be that foolish? Nice try. Because it would make my protagonists less favorable in the eyes of the (potential) readers? Maybe. Because I have an aversion to writing negativity? Yes. Because I tend to idealize my protagonists, and am unable to think that much foolishness of them, even though they are nothing more than extensions of myself? Yep. Do I just about define hypocrisy? 'Fraid so.