Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 129. The proverb today is
foresight is better than hindsight. Now remember, foresight that's when you can
try to anticipate or look into the future about possible things that might
happen. Hindsight is after bad things happen and you're looking backward and
you're saying, oh I should have done this or I should have done that. We often say
we always know something that we should have done in hindsight. After it's
already over. Then we were much smarter and we know what we should
have done. So let's continue with the note here. This proverb basically means
it is better to anticipate and try to prevent future problems. So trying to see
where future problems might be coming and try to do something just in case
they did come. Then to only realize how it could have been averted or
avoided . Averted you know, you got out of the way of it or you were able to take care
of it. So that they the bad thing did not affect you too seriously before the
fact. Before the fact that it actually happens. Okay. We have a couple of
examples here. Example number one even though, many people mocked preppers. Yeah.
A number of years ago we're hearing about a lot of prepers , especially people
that were worried about you know, a financial crash, a worldwide crash and they were
trying to save up a lot, just in case this happened and it wouldn't be able to
get supplies and things like that. So even though many people mocked them, some
people made fun of them, there were a number of cases where bad storms had
negatively affected many areas. Now even though they were preparing for her a
large financial crash and that didn't happen, they were still prepared. They
were prepared for any sort of disaster and so when some disasters did strike
and everybody else was in a bad situation because they weren't prepared
the preppers were. So in these cases the preppers were prepared because they
thought foresight was better than hindsight. So even though it wasn't
exactly what they were expecting, they were still prepared because they it was
the same sort of preparations that you needed
for that. Maybe even, maybe even more because maybe you were preparing for a
longer period of time. This bad storm was probably only shorter. So you're one of
the few people that's prepared . In that case you might even be able to help a
few people. Not everybody, but a few. Okay. Let's look at the second one here. Some
people buy insurance because they believe that foresight is better than
hindsight. Yeah. I mean that's what they always tell you when they try to get you
to buy insurance too. You know just in case something bad happened,
then you'd be covered. You have some insurance for it. This is why people do
that. Sometimes. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your
time. Bye-bye.