The honourable thing is to ask if you don’t know…

Many of us are shamed because we don’t know and we don’t want to ask. We remain in our shyness or perhaps conceit, thinking that admitting our lack of knowledge in a certain area or to a certain situation will separate us from the lifestyle or clique that we want to represent.

So now we’ve made the virtue of asking a laughable thing, but what we don’t ask ourselves is the backside: what if our facade backfires and we’re asked to do or give details of those things that we pretend to have all the answers to?

In fact which of the two is more admirable:  asking even if you’re going to be made fun of for a minute or not asking and run the risk of making a fool of yourself forever? But no wonder the young lady’s dessert was fruits mixed with finger chips, boiled eggs, oyster, ‘daharr’ and shrimps and still called fruit salad.