Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN HINDSIGHT and HINDSIGHT IS 20/20

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “with hindsight”, or sometimes we say “in hindsight”. And this simply means when looking back in time. So I could say this, “With hindsight we know that dumping garbage into the ocean is a bad idea.” If we look back 50 or 100 years, we know that some of the things we did were bad. So with hindsight, when we look back in time, we realize that those are bad things. You can use the phrase, too, to talk about your own personal life. You could say, in hindsight, I should have taken the job at the factory. Maybe everyone at the factory just got a $50 a day raise and you're still at your old job because you decided not to work there. But you could say, “In hindsight, I should have taken the job.” So when you look back in time, you think, Oh, I should have made a different decision.

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And then we also have this phrase in English. Hindsight is 20/20. So this is interesting because hindsight refers to looking back in time and 20/20 refers to how good your eyesight is. If you have 20/20 vision, it means that you don't need to wear glasses to read or just to see things. So when you say, “Hindsight is 2020.”, you're basically saying that when you look at a situation in the past from the future, it's pretty easy to see clearly if you made a good or bad decision.

So to review “with hindsight” or “in hindsight” simply refers to looking back in time from your current place in time and realizing that something was a good or bad decision, and saying that hindsight is 20/20 simply refers to the fact that it's much easier to see now if a decision you made a long time ago was good or bad.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry these shorts of weird pockets, it's hard to get things in and out, it’s all crumpled. Sorry, This comment is from DimbikeY. Such a poor little tree behind you. R.I.P. Mr. Tree. That means rest in peace. And my response? I'm sure it will come back strong next year.

So yeah, in the last video I showed you all of the beautiful trees, but one tree was kind of sad looking and I do think it will come back. I'm not too worried about that tree. I'm sure that it will look beautiful in the future. We just have to wait a year. Anyways, I'm out here. Thanks for the comment, by the way, I’m out here walking along, the flowerbeds are in full bloom.

Sorry. My battery went dead there. That's never happened before. I'm using my old trusty camera, but I haven't used it for a few weeks because I've been using my new gimbal and my phone. So sorry I've charged it up. I'm kind of holding a battery pack here while I use it. I'm sure it will last for another minute or so. So I'm just out here by the flowerbeds. They look beautiful. Jen has done a wonderful job this year. We have been harvesting flowers like crazy. We have been selling a lot. And I thought it was time for me to kind of give you a little bit of a look at what they look like. These are the zinnias. These are a very, very popular flower. People are always wanting zinnias.

Oh, What do we have here? Oh, Did it fly away? Oh, it's coming back. There is a butterfly. Oh, this is a rare treat. I hope that it's in focus and you guys can see. Oh, there it goes. Oh, this is kind of fun. Sorry if I'm getting distracted by this butterfly. It's not often that we have things come and join us when we're doing an English lesson, so that's pretty cool.

Anyways, flowers are doing well. We have about six or seven weeks left her

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