I’m of the opinion that learning is an activity that should have a priority in your life. If you stop learning you stop growing. When you stop growing- well you start doing the opposite. No not shrinking- dying! A kind of death anyway, the death of the soul which to me is the worst sort!
The mistakes we make in life are due to lack of knowledge. Whether we were being intentionally ignorant or just haven’t learned something yet. Even if you knew better – yet did it anyway- you cannot claim you did so with full knowledge, or you wouldn’t see it as a mistake.
Mistakes are the learning experiences that have the most impact on us. I can tell you there’s certain things I will never do again! Some that have to do with electricity, some that are relationship based! How many mistakes have you made? How many do you admit to? The experience of being wrong is painful yes. Not usually deadly though. Mistakes we survive give us an opportunity to amend them in some way and hopefully help others by teaching from our experience. Hence why I am bothered by some people’s inability to admit to mistakes.
This isn’t something to be afraid of. Will people see you in a different light- yes probably! It will either give them a higher opinion of you or a reason to talk behind your back. If this frightens you, well here is another thing you haven’t learned yet. How to be comfortable with yourself and not depend on the opinion of others! Get over that.
I do make mistakes. Look at that I admitted it and the world didn’t end. We all do when we’re rushed, overtired, preoccupied. (Yes, we need to learn to manage ourselves better) My subconcious takes care of these most of the time. Perhaps I have an overactive subconcious, it seems to sit around- pen in hand- writing flash cards which it flings up to the conscious mind. Here’s one of my most memorable
” You know you just dropped your movies in the mailbox right?”
What did I learn from this mistake? Quite alot. How to be embarassed for one. How to readlily admit an error to complete strangers. How to laugh at my humanity. Also, the US postal service does have a sense of humor but it’s a dark one.
There are forms to fill out, waiting periods, everything but a full body cavity search. Now you would think a mailman would just go out, open the little door at the bottom, see yes, you were telling the truth- DVD’s from Blockbuster do not belong there, and give them back. This is not the case. The long waiting period (prior to the new BB return policy) meant I had to go to the video store and explain my delay in returning them. The clerk found it hilarious. I enjoyed that, but had to admit it was funny.
