Making Mistakes

Everybody makes mistakes. I do. And I suppose you and your friends and your parents and everybody else do as well. Its part of life. Nobody knows how to do everything right when they are born. Everyone is bound to make a mistake. Nobody is perfect. However, making mistake isn't too much of a problem as long as we learn from it. Some dude named John Powell once said "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." So true, its extremely important to learn from your mistake so that you won't commit it again. Seems alright? Well, there is problem. We don't expect ourselves to make mistakes sometimes. Even when we know clearly that we are not perfect, we believe that we are pretty close to perfect. Thats a problem. So when the time comes when we really make a mistake, we feel so bad and all. Thats when pride comes in. We get too proud to admit our mistake, and how are we going to learn from our mistakes which we don't even admit? We simply can't. What happens when we don't admit our mistakes is that we find excuses to cover so that it looks like it ain't our fault. In the end, we don't learn anything from our mistake, we just learn how to get better at finding excuses. Therefore, we should humble ourselves, and admit the mistake and learn from it. Face the consequences if necessary. After that, we must forgive ourselves, just like God has forgiven us, then move on. It ain't easy, but I'm sure it ain't a problem for all of us.