I wish people were wrong more often.
I wish I could make more mistakes. (don’t laugh. It would be hard considering how many i’ve made, but I still wish it)
Society at large has a thing against mistakes.
People are caused endless suffering and stress by fearing mistakes, or by guilt of having made a mistake. This is a shame, it’s a lid on a jar that isn’t really there, but we’ve been taught to believe it is true. Well there’s no lid, people. It is not true.
Think about it this way. The world of science, medicine and technology are based on the principle of making mistakes, making lots of mistakes. A scientist can only achieve his goal by failing a number of times at first. Doctors save lives by experimenting and making mistakes (usually on mice first to reduce the cost of human life, but that’s not say humans don’t die in the process). Without the cost of mistakes we wouldn’t progress as a species, we wouldn’t evolve, we wouldn’t innovate, we wouldn’t learn, we wouldn’t develop. So why on earth, despite this knowledge, do we still live in a world where mistakes are punishable by fear, guilt and maybe even by whip.
Mistakes should be celebrated. Every mistake is a learning lesson. So live free, and err as much as possible. Get it wrong. Slip up. Go astray. You’ll be better for it.
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