Seeing, after the fact.

I was definitely curious, about so many things. And yes, right now I was probably most curious about what was going to happen to me and to my injured brother as well, but especially to me. I had not really done anything wrong as I have explained. Those of you who have followed this blog, know that it was an accident, a sequence of misguided intentions and actions, not actions ‘intended’ to be misguided (unlike many of the young people today). It was an unfortunate lapse in a critical judgement, particularly where parabolic calculations were involved (and physics could have saved us). And it was more about not having sufficient information. Had I known my brother was not as home as he was supposed to be. Lack of information, mathematical abilities, and faith in a supreme being (and I  am not referring to god here, but my father) You can see how these random sidetracks which keep happening on my blog all come together? Or indeed, possessing the same accurate ‘psychic’ abilities of my mother (though since it involved my brother then, maybe I would not have seen what was going to occur. But, take that one step further. For something as devastating as what occurred. Then if I had some psychic powers, wouldn’t I have seen the horror on the faces of others from outside the family who were gathered there? And then maybe I would have stopped from that last throw of the stilt, to ask what they were thinking of. So many threads necessary to come together.

As it was, it happened. There you are. The kite, the stilt, and the brother. It occurred. It had happened. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, for those not directly involved.  Have you ever noticed that? After some staggeringly atrocious event occurs, lots of people suddenly come forward with sage wisdom and advice. The, “I told you so” groups, and, “That wouldn’t have happened if….” spokespeople. Always too ready to say they could see what was going to happen. These people are quite useless and seriously, if they could see something occurring as they now say it did, ‘after the fact’, and they had done nothing about it. If they suggest they knew what would happen if such and such was not considered, but if they have done nothing, then I think they are twice as guilty as those who did not realise what was going to happen.

There should never be any ‘what if’s’. There is only a “what was”. We should adjust and get on with it. But, as we all knew and know, now there would be consequences.

For me the consequences were still delayed and now the evening was darkening and the sound of dinner was coming through the door. The smells had reached me long ago. That didn’t matter, as usually if punishment was to happen, we would be lucky to be considered for dinner. We may be lucky, something may be put aside, but generally it would be a ‘go without’ after the punishment had been administered.

(Continued tomorrow)