I been looking around at my life and the lives of my friends and I realized something. The great wisdom is to follow.People make mistakes. Yeah, it's true. Everyone will make mistakes because no one is perfect. Mistakes are an inevitable part of life.
Now, having gotten that out of the way. There are many different ways in which people respond to mistakes. There are two basic ways in which I have noticed people responding to mistakes. The first is to learn from them, the second is to ignore them and continue making them.
The friends I have watched act in the first way have improved their lives. They are progressing in school, employment, family relations, friendships, and spiritual aspects. They, by learning from their mistakes, are progressing to a new level of maturity and adulthood. They are becoming the person who they want to become, and they will go somewhere in their lives. These are the people who 'change' for the better and continue to progress with life.
The friends that I have watched continue to make mistake after repeated mistake and not learn from them are, from an outward perspective, absolutely misserable. They are out of school, out of a job, out of touch with family and friends, lacking spiritual guidance and experiences, and not happy. They will tell you they are happy, but if you look at them or talk to them in person there is the undertone of despair. The slight downward trailing at the ends of words and sentences, the word choice that generally lacks words of action and excitement, and the drawn look of their eyes are all sign of not liking where they are.
Whether or not one learns or flops from their mistakes, however, can't change one fact: you can't undo the mistake. An awful wedding will forever be an awful wedding. An awful grade will always be a bad grade. The mistakes we make will forever effect the course of our lives. Mistakes can be fixed, but having made a mistake it will change the person forever. You will always have the memory of just how bad it is.
The real question is: will you improve your life or ruin it?
