Mending the Pen after Sheep Are Lost
羊因栏破而亡，或劝补牢；亡羊之后犹可补，迟补胜于不补。
Sheep escape through a broken pen; someone urges repair—after loss, mending still helps; late repair beats none.
亡羊补牢：损失之后仍可止损——羞耻不该挡住修理。关键是改结构，不是只后悔。可与塞翁失马并读：一个谈祸福流转，一个谈事后补救。今日：事故复盘若只道歉不补栏，羊还会再跑。
Mend the pen after lost sheep: after loss you can still stop further loss—shame shouldn’t block repair. What matters is changing structure, not only regret. Today: postmortems that apologize but never mend the pen lose sheep again.
After the moral, ask one question: if a similar choice showed up today, where does the story snag? Name that tension first—then take your own step. You need not copy the ancients, only borrow their clarity.