Mistakes

I will be making mistakes today, just as I did yesterday and the day before. Of course, I will not know it in the moment. Only time will tell. Sometimes time is short, like after sticking your tongue to a flagpole in winter. Sometimes it is longer, much longer, half a lifetime longer, when you discover someone you thought to be a trusted friend proves otherwise. Most are somewhere in between.

So as I go about this day’s mistakes, I’ll look back on my past and try to learn from missteps and bad choices. But the one thing I won’t do is let the past teach me to shy away from taking chances and moving forward with my life with the absolute confidence that I will make mistakes because the absolute worse mistake I could make is to do nothing for fear of failure.

No, a catastrophic situation did not prompt this proclamation, and nothing dramatic is happening in my life… yet. But who knows what today’s decisions might yield!