missed steaks

We all make mistakes (best read out loud with a fake Italian accent) . 

We all have bruises and battered egos about things we did that didn’t lead to the desired effect. It can go from hiring a mime as your spokesperson, to eating two servings of the bean dip platter just moments before you go bungee jumping.

Sometimes you too had the thought: ‘oh, if only I knew’. 

Thing is: you didn’t knew. And you took the action that, which you thought, was the most wise to do (generally speaking). 

That’s the way it goes. Life is about making choices, a lot of them. Some decisions you take with the greatest of ease, while others require months of thinking. But in the end, choices are made. (Side note: not making a choice is also considered as a choice… ) And you know what, most of the decisions you took are actually good. Yet, usually the bad ones remain with us for the longest. Why so? Because there are lessons to be leant from those mistakes. If you sometimes get the feeling you’re only going in circles, then you might be right: some events tend to reoccur. But with the experience you already got from previous ‘mistakes’, you can find a way of evading another serving.

Use it to move to different horizons, to achieve the goals in which you used to fail. You are meant to make the best of it. So don’t be scared to make mistakes, although they can be inevitable, they will build your character and guide you through the next obstacle course. The worst thing you can do is stand idle and sulk. You’ll miss more by staying in your safe zone than to go out there, to kick ass and chew bubblegum.

Still, if you need time to meditate on past events, by all means: take it slow. But do take it.