Charlie and I were talking about our pasts, shaking our heads more in sorrow than in anger about things we know now that we wish we’d known then.
He gave me my one-liner for the week — maybe for all time:
“I always feel like I was an idiot until the day before yesterday.”
This post is part of Linda G. Hills weekly blog hop, One-Liner Wednesday. If you have a one-liner or just like them, follow the link.
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: What do you or what do various of your characters wish you’d known in the past that you or they know now?
MA
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June 17, 2020 at 9:16amIs that when doubts were erased?
Marian Allen
June 17, 2020 at 10:53amThat’s when doubts took hold. Socrates said that recognizing one’s ignorance is the beginning of wisdom, which is never achieved.
John Holton
June 17, 2020 at 11:20amI know the feeling well…
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
June 17, 2020 at 11:46amExactly how to avoid something that just happened – that seemed to come out of the blue, but shouldn’t have been allowed. Now it can’t be UNdone or UNseen or UNfelt.
But the PLOT gets one step closer to its conclusion; who care is the characters hurt? They were stuck.