Your Mistakes Teach Everyone

Your Mistakes Teach Everyone

I am far from a perfect person, something you will know from reading these and something my editors know in spades, poor women. That means I have a lot of mistakes to reflect on, a lot of pain to hold up under the light of the sun and re-examine.

It’s important that we are not overly critical of ourselves, that we don’t use our flaws to beat our selves into a hole of depression. I know too many people who use their mistakes as a cudgel to harm themselves.

That being said reflection on one’s self is vital to self improvement. Dealing with your mistakes teaches you a lot about yourself, what your flaws are, how you handle them and so forth. It also teaches you a lot about those around you.

Don’t trust anyone that gets mad when you apologize.

It’s a rule of thumb that I learned after years of abuse. How other react to your managing of your mistakes is a reflection on them, not you. It’s easy, especially when we realize e have wronged another, to simply assume whatever animosity comes our way is warranted. And truly it is the victim’s right to determine when they can forgive you.

However there are those who will never let you escape your mistakes. Who will attack you as if those mistakes are perpetual and who will attack you for trying to be better. Some will look at the bowl pictured, with its cracks repaired with gold and see where a mistake was made and the scars left behind to fix it. And others will only see a broken thing and never accept that it’s now a perfectly fine bowl now.

Mistakes are to be learned from, they teach you. They teach you about yourself and about those around you. Learn from both. Learn how to be a better version of yourself and learn who wants you to be the better version of yourself.

I hope this has been as enlightening to read as it was for me to write. Take care my dear readers and God bless;

~ S. Wallace