My take on Mistakes
Once when I was learning to ride a bike, I made the mistake of pulling both brakes simultaneously on a wet road while the bike was in quite a fast motion. As a result, I fell and got dragged by the speed along with my bike. I sustained a few scratches on my knee as well as on my forearm. I didn’t dare touch my bike for about three days after that accident.
But when I was forced by my father to “give it another shot", I mounted my bike again– although reluctantly. “ Trust me, you are not going to make that mistake again", he said. And guess what… he was right! I never did.
The point I am trying to make by this story is that, if we make a mistake doing something; and that mistake affects us deeply, then that mistake was worth making. You’d learn more from such mistakes than what you learn in a classroom.
I think, a mistake does the same thing to our wisdom what a vaccine does to our immune system. With every mistake we make, we become less susceptible to making the same mistake again, hence, more wiser.
But making the same mistake twice or more than twice, however, can only mean two things: either you are oblivious to the fact that you are making a mistake or that mistake hasn’t affected you deeply enough.
So no matter how many mistakes you make throughout your life or how many times you repeat them, the result will always be the same: you’ll become a better version of yourself— whom you’ll come to love and respect, eventually.
