Okay,
So today's post is so not mine.
Something happened a while ago that made me think of how it is not possible to take back things said or, for that matter, written.
Then I remembered a passage from Arthur Hailey's "Overload"-how things cannot be taken back and at the same time if things said ever become true,how one needs to be gracious about it.No "na na na na naa na" about it!!The juxtaposition of things makes interesting reading.

 

 

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 

 

 

The moving finger sometimes does go back,

Not to rewrite but to reread;

And what was once dismissed, derided, mocked,

May in the fullness of a moon or two,

Or even years,

Be hailed as wisdom,

Spoken forthrightly at that earlier time,

And having needed courage To face the obloquy of others less perspective,

Though burdened with invective.

 

Dear Nimrod!

Remind yourself: A prophet’s seldom praised

Before sunset

Of the day on which he first proclaimed

Unpalatable truths.

But if and when your truths

In time become self-evident,

Their Author vindicated,

Be, at that harvest moment, forgiving, gracious,

Broad of mind, large –purposed,

Amused by life’s contrariness.

 

For not to all ,only the few,

Are presbyopic gifts :long vision, clarity, sagacity,

By chance, through lottery at birth,

Bestowed by busy nature.

 

-       Arthur Hailey-Overload.