She couldn’t even focus reading her book. How dare that guy, right? When she sat down in her seat on the plane, she looked into her purse to take out her reading glasses, and to her surprise, her packet of cookies was there, untouched and unopened. She felt so ashamed. She realized that she was wrong. She had forgotten that her cookies were kept in her purse.

The man had divided his cookies with her, without feeling angered or bitter, while she had been very angry, thinking that she was dividing her cookies with him. And now there was no chance to explain herself… nor to apologize. Have you ever lost your cool and then realized later that you were in the wrong?

I’m sure that most of us have. Let’s save ourselves some embarrassment and make sure that we are in possession of all of the facts before reacting. There are four things you can never recover… The stone after the throw; The word after it’s said; The occasion after the loss, and the time after it’s gone.