My Mistakes

     How do we learn? What happens if we do not listen? What makes us human? Mistakes are how we learn, the result of not paying attention, and what keep us human. Without mistakes to correct people, people would never learn the whole of the problem. I value everything morally and logically I do wrong.

     If one knows me on a personal level, one would find it peculiar that I value mistakes. I loathe making mistakes more than anything else. My face burns with shame, my eyes cast downward, and my heart sinks. Along with making mistakes goes asking for help to fix what is incorrect. Seeking assistance, to me, is almost as bad as creating the problem in the first place. To prevent the intervention of others, I try to learn what I am doing front and back before I try to solve it. I know how important mistakes are, and I know they are unavoidable because they are necessary to learn.

     Mistakes are what make me human, even though I detest being incorrect. I know nothing pushes me more than the fear of being wrong. Mistakes push me to learn, and to be better. If I didn't have mistakes in my life, I would feel unfulfilled. I would never feel accomplished  at fixing anything, and my success would feel empty and meaningless. Without all my mess-ups, shame, mistakes, fails, incorrect answers, and wrongs I wouldn't be the person I am today. I need mistakes in my life, and I appreciate that they exist.