Mistakes
Ever make a mistake so large that it changed everything? Your entire life path for good or ill? Do you look back, wonder, if only I said this, if only I did that, if only I could take “it” back?
I have. I have made big mistakes, life changing mistakes, said the wrong thing, and instantly, as soon as the words passed my lips, I wanted to take back those words or take back those actions. I wonder all the time what my life would be like if some key moments in my life that I coin “mistakes” could be “undone.”
But, there is no back, only now. And we have to finally forgive ourselves, come to acceptance that we did the best we could at the time and move forward, changed hopefully for the better because of our “epiphanies.”
Mistakes are never really “mistakes.” Just stumbling blocks of growth, opportunities to do better, opportunities to make better choices…
And for the record, to all those who have been victims of my “stumbling blocks of growth,”
I’m sorry.