Mistakes Aren’t Always Such A Bad Thing
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012
by Susan Thom
How many times do we say, "Well, I won’t do that again?" Right there, we have learned. Some mistakes are more serious than others, but if we experience what we need to know to grow and not repeat the same thoughts, acts, and reactions, then we are headed in the right direction. Most of us will make the wrong moves and decisions at times, but if we can train ourselves to do the best for all involved, we will live this life in a happier and more productive way.
I knew not to do it, but I made a bad decision. I don’t think too many people get through life without making several bad decisions. I also knew there was more than a 100 per cent chance that the damn jar was going to fall off the plate as i tried to maneuver dishes and glasses down the stairs (now, I’m a juggler) and break; but I chanced it, and had to deal with the consequences. I’ll never do it again, though. I was trying to quickly put the groceries away-not one of my favorite jobs; and I knocked a jar of spaghetti sauce into the wooden wall of the closet. The glass broke, and my hand opened up like a clam.
It should have had stitches, but I’m not one for going overboard if I can help it, so I bandaged it and it turned out fine. However, if I hadn’t made the mistake of hurrying and not really paying attention, it would have never happened. As a result, though, I am always careful putting glass jars in the cabinets now! I think you get the point. So far, these examples have been simple, but there are also ways we can screw up, that aren’t so simple and can cause enormous amounts of pain, money, and time. How can we prevent this from happening?
Winnie the Pooh has the answer….."Think, think, think." We have so many things going on in our lives, that sometimes we navigate through instinct, and sometimes, our instincts are wrong. My instinct to shove the jar into the cabinet wasn’t too swift. I knew what my chances were, and yet, sometimes having taken the same shortcut, I managed to beat old man destiny and make it in without opening my skin up. Laziness has a lot to do with it, and I am guilty as charged. My point remains, that mistakes along our journey of life on Earth, have their own significance.
If we keep burning our hands on the pan when we take it out of the over, are pot holders or oven mitts ever going to cross our minds Should we cry once we realize we’ve made a mistake?" Maybe we should be glad it finally came to us! We’ll never touch a hot pan again, I bet. So, we learned some good lessons for our future, and our present or future kids. If we’ve learned the iron is hot, we will hopefully make sure our child learns to stay away from it, and why.
I always had the best results with my kids, when I explained to them the whys behind things. If I told them the iron was hot, they were curious, and might touch it and get burned. If I told them the iron would burn them if they touched it, and it would hurt, they would leave it alone.
Sometimes, children being heard and not just seen, can save their lives. If our father hears us sneaking out of the house, and intercepts our little plan, maybe he wasn’t doing such a bad thing. It may seem so to us at the time, but the time always comes when we understand. Mistakes make us who we are. Do we learn from our poor choices, or do we like that type of lifestyle?
Do we have drama in our bones for the dangerous side of life, or do we play that way until things get too far out of reality? Flirting until it leads to more? Taking longer and longer lunches until you are fired? Cheating on tests in school, until you just don’t know any answers? Sometimes the inability to admit to our mistakes, robs us achieving our true potential.
We all have things we excel at, and things we don’t understand. Concerning the things we do know well, shouldn’t they be the areas we are interested in? If everybody was working in places they loved spending 8 hours in, most of the world would be healed!
Being the best you can be takes hard work and plenty of sacrifice. You can’t just go and slap the face of an arrogant customer. In a "peaceful" world, you need to train yourself to act in the best way possible, under any extremes.
Mistakes can teach you that in fact, it didn’t feel good physically fighting with someone (most of us never have this happen to us in a lifetime.) Then again, spray painting the girl’s car who stole your man may be a different story. We still were taught, by good parents, I hope, that spraying paint on someone’s car is not right.
Mistakes seem to harden us a little more each time, and prepare us for the next big aspect of our lives. We learn to detach from the rest of the world and those around it, and that is a task that is still occurring when we die. There must be a balance between mistake and "poor judgment." We might just be able to deal with "poor judgment". We had poor judgment so we made a mistake! Maybe if we focus on slowing down in a whirlwind atmosphere, we could make less mistakes, and enjoy more miracles.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Susan,
Thank you for your thoughts. I enjoyed the first half better due to its example of personal experience, more than the second half which seemed to be more lecture style. That half may have been more coherent if there was a progression of examples. Just my thoughts.
Ron KelleyPlease log in to respond to this comment.hi ron,
thank you for reading and for your comments.
and i do appreciate your thoughts. i think they are valid points.
i hope you come around again,
my best regards,
suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
Susan,
Mistakes provide us with opportunities to grow. I enjoyed reading this article.
Winifred BraggPlease log in to respond to this comment.hi winifred,
thank you for reading, and i'm glad you enjoyed this article.
if what you say is true, i should be able to touch a cloud within a few years:)
my best regards,
suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
Susan,
My favorite line: "Sometimes the inability to admit to our mistakes, robs us achieving our true potential."
Thank you for your article.Please log in to respond to this comment.hi amanda,
sometimes i amaze myself with words i don't even temember writing, yet mean so much. that's why i believe in Divine Intervention:)
they say write what you know, so i guess it just flows.
thank you for reading and commenting.
my best to you,
suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
I agree with Ron. Your conclusion wraps the article up pretty well, especially the last sentence.
Worth reading!Please log in to respond to this comment.hi yvonne,
thank you for reading and taking the time to comment.
it's nice when new people visit your articles.
i hope you come back for another read,
my best regards,
suePlease log in to respond to this comment.
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