Forgotten lessons

Wisdom can only be obtained through experience (experience, however, does not guarantee wisdom).

Counting to 100 is always better than acting on impulse.

Telling to yourself “It doesn’t matter” over and over will lead you to believe it in the end. OK, more likely it will provide your temper the necessary time to boil away. After all only a stupid will argue with a stupid and I’m neither, right? (Easy now, that wasn’t a question).

A good old-fashioned crying in the bathroom helps too (Oscar Wilde advises otherwise: “Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.” Ah, great literature loses its enchantment when applied to everyday life).

Very few things are worth a drama. Alas, the latter one always occurs to me subsequently.