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Forgive, Forgiveness, Health, Human, Humor, Laugh, life, Love, Mistake, Respect, Self-esteem, Shame, Yourself
Recently, I’ve made some stupid choices.
As much as I know those weren’t smart, that doesn’t make me stupid. It makes me absent-minded, curious, a person with not much self-respect… a human.
We all make mistakes; the severity of the mistake varies, but the outcomes are the same:
We get hurt, we think worse of ourselves, we become wary around people.
We are scared.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
This summer, I’ve made many mistakes and I said afterwards “I am not doing THAT again!!” But two weeks later, I found myself doing it.
I tried to justify it with the fact that nobody will know. It won’t do any harm if I keep it to myself. Other people are doing it, I’ll be fine!
But those don’t change the way I acted and behaved. It’s not going to change the way it will make me hurt.
Those excuses only try to begin to make me feel better. Though, I do know (deep down) that those things don’t really make me feel better. I just try to pretend that they do.
It’s tricking the mind. If you tell yourself something enough times, you begin to believe it to be true.
That’s what I’m going to do.
When I make a mistake, I’m going to write it on a card and put it in a little book. And every morning, I’m going to read that book in hopes that I will drill it in my brain to not do that.
Perhaps it will work, but maybe it won’t. But, I’ll never know for sure until I try.
Any other ideas or suggestions?
Everybody’s human; everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
We’ve all made our mistakes, but how we recover is the most important thing.
It shows character. The fact that I can sit here today and type this… I feel no shame. I do know that is not the point, the point is that I can’t go telling anybody and everybody the mistakes I’ve made. It’ll affect my life, and I can’t handle, nor am I prepared for, that kind of hardship.
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
I can try to learn and help show other that things can get better after you’ve made a mistake.
Everybody does and everybody will.
We all make mistakes from time to time. It’s called being human. In fact, the more mistakes you make, the more you will learn through experience. Mistakes aren’t something to be fear, but to embrace because every failure to do something makes you wiser and more capable of obtaining the original goal. Some of the most successful people in history are those who have made tons of mistakes. The only way to never make a mistake is to never try to make something of yourself.
Now, why would anyone want to NOT make mistakes?
That’s just a part of being human.