At the spur of the moment, we never say or give the right answer. Invariably we feel later that we ought to have reacted differently or spoken differently in a cerain situation. True wisdom dawns upon us very late and some time as late as 30 years!
In my personal case, wisdom dawned on me after some 30 years. I shouldn’t have contradicted my superior officer saying, “That would be a moronic action, sir” . Instead I should have said, “Won’t that be a wrong action, sir?” The result? I had been denied my promotion.
This is nothing compared to the post event wisdom of an young wife some 3 weeks into her marriage. The angry wife during her first tiff said, in between soft sobs, , “I should not have married you at all. Several men proposed to me…”
“Oh, I see?” the injured husband barked back “In which case, why the hell didn’t you marry the first idiot who proposed to you?”
“I did” said the young thing and raised the volume of her howl.
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PS. We are all Tubelights in a way.Why is it that we always give some kind of wrong answer at that crucial moment? And true wisdom props out only much much later about the correct response we ought to have given? Could some psychologist throw some light on it?
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