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Mistakes

I had a conversation with Tyme yesterday about how people make mistakes and then after they have supposedly learned from the mistakes go on to repeat them. I admit to being one of those people and I guess you can say that either you have not learned from them or maybe you really don’t see them as mistakes. Or let’s face it, maybe you are just an idiot.

I have gotten myself into enough jams in my life to have an understanding of when something needs to stop. I like to think that I am just human so maybe there is a part of me that enjoys messing up. That is what partly makes us human. Another part of me simply does not care if I mess up and that in itself is a larger problem. I do not mean that I it does not bother me if I make mistakes all the time, I guess I just see these mistakes leading up to something greater, similar to Thomas Edison and the light bulb.

Will it work out like that? Probably not because Thomas Edison was going through failures, but these failures were bringing him closer. He didn’t have 1001 failures, he just learned 1001 ways not to make a light bulb. When you continue to make the same mistake you are not learning anything new, you are simply ignoring the one thing that is wrong.

It is this one fatal flaw that must be corrected to prevent the mistake from ever happening again. Many times this flaw digs deep into your ego so either you ignore it or don’t recognize it and because of this the mistake goes on forever. If someone were to ask us what our flaws are it should not be too hard to point most of them out. However, mistakes point out the flaws that we don’t wish to admit. They are usually the ones that we say we can fix immediately if we wanted to yet for some reason we never do.

If you like to think mistakes are what make us human, then you should also think that correcting what causes those mistakes are what make us even greater humans.