Shopping for children's gifts can be so difficult. I find it's best not to do it at all.
I thought it was a charming little mermaid. But I digress.
The other night I was reading a book to my toddler. It was probably the 84th time I have read this particular book, so my mind was wandering as I recited most of it from reflex and memory. Eventually I made it to a sentence that was written as "papa and mama." When I got to this part, the first word out of my mouth was "mama." I instantly realized my mistake and in a split second, without missing a beat, I added "and papa." If you compare what I read aloud to what was written, I got the first word wrong as well as the third word. Two mistakes. If I had made just one mistake, I would have said "mama and mama." So in this case, I figure two wrongs really did make a right!
This is kind of a tongue in cheek example. But you don't have to think hard about more serious scenarios where you could argue that two wrongs can sometimes make a right. The term "little white lie" is basically this concept in action. Withholding painful or embarrassing information could be another. Or how about one of the most extreme examples: cheating on your spouse and lying about it. I've heard it said that confessing to an affair years after it ended is one of the most selfish things you can do. If you are now fully committed to your spouse after a rough patch long ago, and one day they ask if you ever cheated on them, why say yes? A second wrong would help prevent so much heartache and pain.
Disclaimer: that was a very hypothetical example. Wife, please don't read into this post.
Anyway, you get my drift, right? It's easy to imagine countless scenarios where you could argue that doing something that was technically "wrong" really was the "right" thing to do. Especially when it addresses a previous mistake in the cleanest and least harmful way possible. What do you think?
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