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How to make a mistake

Submitted by dorothycolleen on Mon, 2016/10/03 - 7:47am

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  • Dorothy Colleen

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  • Autobiographical

One of the parts of adulting I'm trying to learn is how to make mistakes.

Now that probably sounds confusing, so let me explain.

For most of my life, any mistake I made became huge, an example of my general unworthiness. I would beat myself up, add the mistake to a list of mistakes that I kept reminding myself of, and generally act like I was in a really bad tragedy.

But adults dont act like that.

Instead, an adult will recognize that mistakes happen even to the most careful and cautious of people, start working on cleaning up the mistake, apologize to anybody who may have been hurt by the mistake, try and examine the mistake objectively to learn what went wrong so it can be avoided in the future, and then, let the mistake go.

I am not there yet, but I'm working on it ...

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