Learning from (original) mistakes

As we grow older and if our lives are active and interesting enough, we’ll continue to accumulate errors and mistakes. 

I’m hopefully talking about new ones and not a repeat performance the ones we’ve made previously, but this would be a totally different topic of conversation. 

While new errors or mistakes generally bring their share of hurt and pain, they also get our attention and, in the process, teach us an additional lesson that, with the emotions they carry, will hopefully make a permanent imprint on our memory. 

Painful stuff often get our full attention and when provoked by self-errors are part of our continued education. 

So in spite of all the suffering they involve, I welcome mistakes because they’re also my teachers and the importance of the new knowledge they impart on me is often enough to soften or totally eliminate the blow!