Monday, April 4, 2011

Mistakes


    Remember being little, and someone hands you a hot plate in a restaurant saying "don't touch it, its hot". You smile and nod, and the second they walk away you touch it and yelp from the searing pain. We hear warnings of danger and we see other people get hurt, but you never truly learn until you're in the positions yourself how it would hurt you. People are always telling you what will happen, and what could go wrong in any given situation, but we all need to make our own mistakes in order to find out what is right.                                                                                                              Everyone makes mistakes - big ones. The thing about mistakes is you can't take them back, once you've made one, its there. There's no "take two" in life, there's just new opportunities every day to make new and different mistakes. Sometimes the people you care about hurt you, and sometimes you hurt the people you care about. None of us are perfect, and we all fall down sometimes. Some people let their past mistakes define them, but I say learn from it. If you're too busy regretting the past you cannot fully live in the present or look forward to the future. Everyone makes mistakes; some of us make the same mistake over and over again and some of us find new ways to mess everything up. You have to take the mistakes you've made and grow from it, learn to never make that same mistake again.  You cannot live in the fear of making mistakes, sometimes you have to go down a few wrong paths until you find the one that you need to take.                                                                                                                       So what if you mess up? We all do. Its how you take that and make it change you for the better, and make it mold you into a better person who would never do that again. Everyone messes up; some choose to dwell on their inevitable mistakes. Those people let one slip-up completely change who they are. They let it change their life, and they can never shake it. Those are the people who are constantly looking back and saying “what if?” But why bother? No matter how many times you look back and analyze how you could have done something differently, and how it would’ve changed your life… You can’t fix it. We can’t go back in time; we don’t have time machines or super powers Life is a rollercoaster - sometimes you're up, sometimes your down - but without the downs you wouldn't have the thrill of the rising to the top. So mess up, go crazy, and do what feels right in the moment. Do whatever you think is right, and if you make mistakes,  don't let them define you.    
                                                                People make mistakes; no one’s perfect. But what’s wrong with that? So many people spend all of their lives striving for perfection, but sometimes it’s the flaws that make you who you are. There is nothing wrong with having flaws, there is nothing wrong with making mistakes, it’s only human. So stop looking back, and start enjoying life. Use your mistakes so that you don’t repeat them; learn from them.                                                                                                   Realize without those mistakes, without messing up and going down the wrong paths, you might have never found the right path. Without your bad decisions and bright ideas gone wrong, you wouldn't be where you are today. So learn to appreciate your mistakes, and appreciate that those mistakes lead you to the right decisions in the end.

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