Making Mistakes

Mistakes hurt. Maybe that's why we try to avoid making them. It's hard though, because the more we try to avoid making mistakes, the more we make and the more they hurt.

Maybe there are worse thing than making mistakes. Like not making mistakes. Mistakes can only happen when we try something new, when we push boundaries, when we take a chance. If we are never willing to take a risk, to accept that we may be hurt then we will never change or grow. We will never be able to become who we are meant to be. Unless we take a chance, knowing that we might make some mistakes, life remains the same. We remain the same.

Fearing mistakes also means that we fear change. We fear the endless amounts of possibilities that exist within all of us. When we try something new, we can either find something that will stay with us for the rest of our lives, or something we would rather avoid for the rest of our lives. And taking the chance to find out can sometimes be too terrifying. The chance that we may realize we love something else more than what we have already dedicated our lives to is scary because that would mean we've made a mistake. It's so worth it though.

It is through mistakes, through all the mistakes that we make, that we are able to figure out who we are. It is through our mistakes that we are able to define ourselves, to find the truest part of ourselves. It's strange that we are so frightened of making mistakes, when making some mistakes doesn't make us bad or defective, it simple makes us human. It also makes us unique individuals. How we make mistakes, how we deal with them, that is what defines us. It makes us who we are.