by Richard Lee

Created on: April 24, 2008

You could say that we make mistakes because we are human. This is only partially accurate. Consider this, in the movie " Somebody loves Mary", when the guy threw the tennis ball off the balcony and the dog chased it that was a big mistake. [ On both the man and the dogs' part].

Basically we make mistakes as a learning process.If you were never to make a mistake, besides being very annoying to every one else, you would not learn what not to do. Can you imagine the trauma caused by your first mistake if you were elderly. We make mistakes because we , and no one, are not perfect. Everyone makes mistakes, from the smartest, to the richest, the most attractive and the most powerful.

Mistakes are exactly what the word implies, an error in judgment. Hopefully we learn from them. That does not mean that if you make a lot of mistakes that you become very smart, although some mistake prone people May disagree. I'm hoping it wasn't a mistake writing this article.

Sometimes mistakes are beneficial. I remember one time I bought the same set of lottery numbers twice by mistake. I offered to sell one to a friend of mine who had forgotten to buy his own. he turned me down, they paid 290 dollars each for a one dollar ticket. Have you ever taken a wrong road and discovered a great restaurant, or a gift shop with just what you were looking for? Of course sometimes you take a wrong road and run into a ten mile construction zone.

As you go through life you remember the good times and the bad times. waxing nostalgic on past mistakes not all the memories are bad. When my wife and I first got married I was in the marine corps stationed in North Carolina. Occasionally we would drive home to western New York. On every trip invariably we took a wrong turn in Virginia and enden up on a dead end street where and old black gentleman was enjoying his rocking chair. The last couple of times he even waved hello. That is a memory that I now cherish. I wish we could wave to each other again. Learn to live with your mistakes. Try not to make the same one too many times, unless you're buying a winning lottery ticket, or perhaps meeting an old friend.

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