Does our ability to ignore good advice ever peak?

“Be kind to yourself,” she said.
I know I heard her clearly;
I had broken some part
or another, and needed repairs.

Should you find yourself,
on a small island
in the middle of nowhere,
or, even in a vast city
in the middle of everywhere,
and the briefly visiting
fixer upper of parts speaks,
you must listen.

I don’t know if she was
as beautiful then as her
words have made her now,
I believe she was.

That is how
I came to receive
the best advice
I ever ignored.