by Renee Morgan

Created on: June 24, 2008   Last Updated: August 26, 2009

Which ones? We makes so many along the way! Every mistake we make is so that we learn something from it. A mistake done repeatedly is foolishness, but nevertheless, it is one of life lessons.

As a child, we start our learning process. We learn how to get off the bed without falling, and how to hold on to the chair when learning to walk. We learn not to touch the stove when mother is cooking, not to play in the toilet, and the list goes on. Nevertheless, we learned what to and what not to do through mistakes.

As adults, we have seen people doing something stupid and get arrested. We might say something like, Bet you won't do that again, and their respond would be, Next time I won't get caught. This is not learning from a mistake, this is foolishness, but for one not to do that act again is a learnt lesson. Me, myself has always have been a quick study, even with mistakes. I never could stand for my dad eyes to have that look of disappointment. If I made a mistake and he had that look, it would more then likely not happen again. If it was really bad I would stay away from he until I had thought the mistake though and realize what I did wrong and why. There many mistakes that are just disrespectful and I have never wanted to be disrespectful to other human, if possible, but sometimes you don't know that an act it is disrespectful until you make the mistake of doing it.

Through out my life I have realized my mistakes, like marring my first husband knowing that I did not love him. I knew that my second husband was married while we was dating, then I turn right around and married him knowing what goes around comes around. I knew that those first and third husbands dabbed in drugs, yet I married them both knowing that I did not want such actives around my children. Nevertheless the outcome of these three marriages was life lessons learned from foolishness and mistakes.

I have made plenty of mistakes and talk about them freely. I like when for young people to come to me about different subjects, I will talk to them very openly about mistakes. I have the thought that I have already made the mistake and dealt with the guilty, and if you listen, you won't have to go through it. Because I am so open, I have people of all ages and walks ask for my advice, some listen and some don't.

The bottom line is that they have to do what they want to in order to learn, this is what old folks call Bought Sense, when you have learnt a lesson you have hopefully bought yourself sense not to do it again, meaning you know why it does not work for you, because you made the mistake.

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