The things we do

The Things We Do

A person would usually do this every day. It has something that we as human beings do. It might be as simple as forgetting to take out the trash. It could be as serious as cheating on your girlfriend or boyfriend. No matter how big or small it is we try to avoid it as much as possible. We as people make mistakes everyday.
We see mistakes as failures. We see mistakes as bad and embarrassing. How do we learn without making mistakes in our life? Making a mistake is not the end of a person’s life. Making a mistake is not bad or a failure at all. Thomas Edison made 10,000 mistakes before creating the light bulb (wikipedia.org). Every mistake he made was a mistake he learned not to do again. Mistakes are lessons we learn from life. A person might make the same mistake more than once. If a person can take those mistakes and turn them into life lessons, then mistakes are a good thing if looked in a different perspective.

In everyday life people are afraid to make mistakes. Ryan Allis wrote in his article “Failure and Learning,” that people are afraid of making mistakes and failing. So people never try to do anything thus avoiding making a mistake. This just leads people into what is not wanted, failure. Failure is just another mistake. The mistake of not doing anything can not get us were we want. To reach a goal or an achievement a person should attempt and not be scared of failure. A great example is Christopher Columbus finding America. Even though he failed at finding a passage to India, he succeeded in finding a new land that grew into what we live in today. If people are to afraid to make mistakes, then there would never be success.

I have made many mistakes in my live. Any where from the little things like, forgetting to wake up my mom for work. All the way to something big like, cheating on my girlfriend. My biggest mistake was “kissing and telling.” I guess it was a guy thing to talk about the “physical relations” with the female sex. So of course, it came back to me and bit me in the ass. The thing that made it worst was I was getting it from two of my ex-girlfriends. They both labeled me as the biggest mistake in their lives. To top everything off, I just told my girlfriend that I cheated on her. Three girls and I was the mistake in all of their lives. It was one of the lowest times of my life.

After the ten minutes of the lowest time in my life, I wiped the tears of my face and realized that with every mistake comes a lesson. The lesson I learned was that to never talk about your business in the bedroom. Girls are very sensitive about the things that happen. I do not see my ex-girlfriends leaving me as a bad thing. I am not afraid to date other girls. I do not have the fear that I will be labeled as a mistake again. I use my previous mistakes to my advantage to make things better the next time around. It is better to love, than not to love at all.

To the simple minded a mistake is an error. If a person who thinks a mistake is a lesson. People should be afraid to make mistakes. People should take chances. Mistakes are made everyday. When we get the opportunity to learn from a mistake, it should be a lesson we take. The important thing is not to make the same mistake twice. I learned from my mistake about keeping things a secret. I am not scared of being labeled as a mistake again. People should not be looked down upon their mistakes or failures. People should be appraised for putting themselves out there to try things that are uncommon and not being afraid of the embarrassment that might come with it. After all, we are only human.