acknowledging our mistakes
Life is never easy. If anything, it is a journey of so much twist and turns and at the end of the day we are wrung like a fabric, all too worn and dry. Then our mistakes, oh...don't we have them? With all the test and struggles that we go through, these shortcomings are but part of our imperfect life. The question is? When we do make them, do we have the guts to accept and own our responsibility? Or does pride gets into us and refuse to acknowledge them?I do make a lot of them, but I do know that I don't hesitate to ask for forgiveness as soon as I realize what I have done.
I also know that the road to a healthy relationship sometimes depends on our willingness to accept our faults and work towards establishing an effort to correct our mistakes.
How long would it take, after a misunderstanding has occurred, for you to acknowledge such an effort? How critical is it if any, is the implication on the timing?
Are there moments, when afterwards, realize our errors, have made us say: "Why did I do that?" then what would you do to fix it?
Or do we let it fly in time and forget it happened?
Thanks for all your contributions and participation.
Comments (26)
Then I forget them and then like clockwork they pop in my head again at a later time. Then I have to tell myself. "It's over with. Forget them".
Yeah, at the time I've made them I've apologized, been embarrassed then when everything clears i dwell on it.
I think for me, it is better to say sorry, talk it out and then sugar and butter next...
I do it fast ading and then move on..Ice cream and flowers would be nice after that...that is if someone hurt me and it's their fault...But I do the same when it is my mistake...I am not a good cook though..so going out to dine is the next best bet..
mistakes are lessons...if you care to recognize this...so i don't try to beat myself up for it but try to learn from it...usually two people are at fault...communication problems as an example...ignoring it usually leads to more mistakes...
After all humility is a virtue.
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SR
SR
Now I do avoid them people.
Of course I was just joking. :) But, like someone or many said, mistakes are a good opportunity for me (or anyone) to learn from. If a mistake I made is pointed out, I would certainly apologize immediately for it.
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SR
Some of them were real lifechangers but I blame nobody but myself at this stage.
But thinking of the words of the old Sinatra song..
"Regrets ive had a few "....I would have to say I have a good few But thats life!
There are so many things I wish I could have done differently, but I wasn't ready to learn. Yes I would liked to have done them in a another way, I have remorse for the people I hurt. It still stays with me today, and to a degree it pains me to think those people may see me as a bad person, but hope that as they grow old, they see sides to life and understand.
I wonder if I wasn't like that, that it would never have made me a better person that I believe I have become, some people are just born to be good, and the majority of those are women.
No one wants to be disliked, but i'm sure there are many who do...
I do feel you have become such a good person after learning and realizing all those mistakes you went through. But that is how life is. It is not how deep we fell off the abyss, it is how strong we are in facing more of those trials and stand facing it with arms spread up in the air.
Thank you Ian for sharing.