Is It Really A Mistake?
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010“Max! You’re doing this wrong!”
“Noooo! That’s not that right way to do it!”
“For the first time in your life! DO IT CORRECTLY!”
I frequently get that in my circle of life. Well, the last one’s pretty harsh. Haha. But i’m fine with that. I don’t hate criticism, but obviously i’ll get annoyed if i get too much of that, everybody does. Mistakes are done everyday by everybody at everywhere. No one can deny it. It’s just about to accept that you’ve made a mistake or not. Either you accept that you’ve made a mistake or not shows what type of person are you. A person who admits that he in fact made a mistake shows that he is a person whom wants to improve himself for a better cause, and will accept any criticism by anyone. On the other hand, A person who just wouldn’t admit that he’s wrong shows that he’s a person with high determination and will die trying to fight for his belief.
But, one way or another, the person who doesn’t admit that he’s wrong (even though he’s right) always comes off as the bad guy. He’s often named “thick skin“, whilst the person who admits he’s wrong (even though he’s right) will never come off as the bad guy, instead he’s entitled to be named “Honest“. People just can’t see the good side of the person who wouldn’t admit that he’s wrong.
Frequently in life, you have to decide upon certain matter. To do, or not to do. To runaway, or to stay. To give up, or to bounce right back up. No matter what decision you’ve chosen, there’s always an outcome. Either the good weighs out, the bad. Or the bad weighs out the good. Or the good and bad stands equal. Before making a decision, people usually weigh out the good(s) and bad(s). And chose the option with more ‘good’ over ‘bad’. But that’s not necessary true. Sometimes, certain things you do, you know that there’s a high chance it’s gonna be a bad choice, but you ended up doing it, just simply cause, you’re curious and you hope by even the slightest chance that it may turn out to be something good! Sometimes you see a message on the net saying “Don’t click” , but you ended up clicking it and regretting it, cause it floods you with tons of spam messages. And you look back and think, “Damn what a mistake i made“.
By clicking something that says “Don’t click“, is it really a mistake? Well, it certainly is a mistake that you clicked that message. But, by not clicking it you did, yet another mistake! Because, you made a choice of not to risk it, you’re too afraid of making mistake, and that, is the biggest mistake one could make. You see, if you click that “Don’t click” sign, at least you know what the outcome was. If you did not click it, then, you’ll never know what the outcome was. And, doesn’t it eats you alive that you will never know the answer to the question?
All i’m saying is, everybody makes mistakes. But don’t make the biggest mistake of your life by being unwilling to take risks and not make the mistake! Sometimes you just have to MAKE THE DAMN MISTAKE!
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