We don’t always realize what we want to say, in the moment, until it’s too late. Eloquence fails us. There’s brain freeze.
Perhaps, the situation to which we are required to respond is so sudden that our eventual responses to these kinds of external stimuli—the firing from a job, a spouse asking for a divorce or a pre-teen girl telling her single-parent father about the first spurts of blood from down in-between—aren’t just quick enough.
But it’s alright. It’s okay to think first, and not react with the awful absurdities of shock, surprise or bewilderment.
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