Preface: Wisdom is recognizing a mistake when you're just about to make it again
Human makes mistakes. Its normal, we do it everyday. We fail to do what we promised, or perform tasks imperfectly. In the aftermath of a mistake, we often feel ridiculous, flawed, imperfect.
Our culture taught us that we're "bad" when we make mistakes. And those unfavorable expressions are painful to us because we, by nature, yearn to feel accepted, loved & cherished. Therefore we're willing to do anything to avoid mistakes and experience hurt.
But by making mistakes doesn't make us bad, dumb or worthless. It just means that we are wrong. And being wrong simple mean that we don't know the right answer or that we're not knowledgeable enuf to apply what we know into practical life. We're all still learning. Isn't it true that we have to be wrong 10 times, 100 times, 1000 times before we can be an expert? Can you play the guitar without making a lot of mistakes first? Can you become a sharp shooter without making a lot of misses? Can you love someone without making lots of mistakes? Mistakes are inescapable as we learn.
The worst thing we can do when making a mistake is hide it. Cause then you are fated to repeat that mistake. But admitting ones' mistake is not easily done. And the thing is, some people will criticize us. But if we stick to being honest, then maybe, just maybe, people will accept us as who we are.
I hide from my mistakes a lot of times. You could say I run away from my mistakes. I ignore them, deny them, and worse, try to blame them on someone else.
We really are imperfect. Not one of us is abdicated from flaws. So why not admit that we're most often, not just occasionally, WRONG and enjoy the freedom of being human :)
Our culture taught us that we're "bad" when we make mistakes. And those unfavorable expressions are painful to us because we, by nature, yearn to feel accepted, loved & cherished. Therefore we're willing to do anything to avoid mistakes and experience hurt.
But by making mistakes doesn't make us bad, dumb or worthless. It just means that we are wrong. And being wrong simple mean that we don't know the right answer or that we're not knowledgeable enuf to apply what we know into practical life. We're all still learning. Isn't it true that we have to be wrong 10 times, 100 times, 1000 times before we can be an expert? Can you play the guitar without making a lot of mistakes first? Can you become a sharp shooter without making a lot of misses? Can you love someone without making lots of mistakes? Mistakes are inescapable as we learn.
The worst thing we can do when making a mistake is hide it. Cause then you are fated to repeat that mistake. But admitting ones' mistake is not easily done. And the thing is, some people will criticize us. But if we stick to being honest, then maybe, just maybe, people will accept us as who we are.
I hide from my mistakes a lot of times. You could say I run away from my mistakes. I ignore them, deny them, and worse, try to blame them on someone else.
We really are imperfect. Not one of us is abdicated from flaws. So why not admit that we're most often, not just occasionally, WRONG and enjoy the freedom of being human :)
I have a little heart within me
And I like to bring him out of
His prison and carry him on the
Palm of my hand to examine him
In depth and extract his secret.
Aim not your arrows at him, lest
He takes fright and vanish 'ere he
Pours the secrets blood as a
Sacrifice at the altar of his
Own faith, given him by Deity
When he fashioned him of love and beauty.
The sun is rising and the nightingale
Is singing, and the myrtle is
Breathing its fragrance into space.
I want to free myself from the
Quilted slumber of wrong. Do not
Detain me, my blamer!
~Khalil Gibran~
And I like to bring him out of
His prison and carry him on the
Palm of my hand to examine him
In depth and extract his secret.
Aim not your arrows at him, lest
He takes fright and vanish 'ere he
Pours the secrets blood as a
Sacrifice at the altar of his
Own faith, given him by Deity
When he fashioned him of love and beauty.
The sun is rising and the nightingale
Is singing, and the myrtle is
Breathing its fragrance into space.
I want to free myself from the
Quilted slumber of wrong. Do not
Detain me, my blamer!
~Khalil Gibran~
4 comments:
its okay Uncommonly_U. At least you know that sometimes its not good to run away from our mistakes.
whatever happens, we still love you cuz =)
*hughug*
That's a very human thing to do, to want to hide from our mistakes. I try to cover up and correct any mistakes I make at work before anyone finds outs!
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