Perfection does not exist. We make progress toward a goal, but we rarely move in a straight line toward it without sidesteps. Life is like a zigzag chain of events that first brings everything together just as we want it and then messes it up all over again. We try to do our best, but inevitably we make mistakes. So a large part of normal daily life is spent fixing and repairing mistakes in judgement.
When we accept imperfection as a fact of life, we make peace with the constant need for repairs. Saying I made a mistake is never fun, but when we do it we grow stronger. Every disappointment, every complaint, points to an underlying lesson for growth. We can use them to point us in the right direction. We do not learn anything new from correctly repeating what we already know. We learn from making mistakes and discovering the underlying lesson behind them.
I appreciate your thoughts Kevin. Thank you for taking the time to post about this. I sure have made my own share of mistakes. Accepting it. Changing it. Moving forward. Taking action.
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