Our short-term memories are flawed.

We’ll be in deep conversation with someone — maybe a family member or friend. Then something related to the topic will assemble itself into a thought. It’s a thought that feels epiphanic. But rather than interrupting the other person, we wait patiently for our turn.

And when it’s time to speak, we forget. The thought was potent, the idea had significance — but for whatever reason, we’ve lost it.

We’ll spend seconds, minutes, maybe hours trying to bring it back.

But it’s gone. And soon, even the memory of that mental struggle fades.

Random thoughts that feel significant in the moment are often fleeting. But they aren’t worth discounting. Perhaps they only mattered then and there; perhaps that was the time to step in and interject your opinion.

Sometimes we’re struck with a thought to share, and we wait for our turn to speak. But some thoughts don’t have patience.

Maybe interruption isn’t always bad. Interjection might be what the universe asks of us at times.