I wish I would learn to refrain from telling people who are close to me what I think of them. When someone tells me that they've decided on a particular course of action, I  sometimes feel it is my duty to tell what I think of it. Many times, I've found myself telling a friend or a family-member the choice they're making is not good. Most often though, that doesn't stop them. That's when I recall the words of Professor Godbole in E M Forster's, A Passage to India: 'One cannot tell anyone … [Read more...]