Rational

My mother used to receive regular beatings from my father, a frustrated brute of a man who couldn’t look after, nor love, his family. And yet, when I had suggested that she should seek a divorce, my mother was deeply offended, angry and hurt. She had said, as a Hindu wife, her place was next to her husband.

Sometimes, bitter personal experiences are not enough to make us wise. Then again, wisdom may not be a rational outcome of our experience. Or perhaps, I’m trying to be rational about things which are not.