Wing and a Prayer Method

Wing and a Prayer Method is the kind of technique that looks too simple to respect and too useful to ignore.

Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

At the cremation ground, every speech is honest and every ambition sounds smaller. Then the bus takes everyone back to the city, and by Tuesday the lesson is negotiable again.

In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. That is all. A small tool, honestly kept, beats a large one admired.