Life is about learning, and how does one learn except by making mistakes. Let's face it, you can not have a completely perfect life. Mistakes are the fundamental building blocks to success. Just as one can not have success without failure, one can not know failure without making a mistake, isn't that what failure is, a mistake that you don't learn from and endure to the completion of making it right.

It goes without saying that you wont truly learn the essence of right and wrong without first making a mistake to know that something is either right or wrong. Just believing you are right doesn't always make you right. A man can feel in his heart he is right for killing several people because he feels they are a threat to his life, his families life or America. But does it make him right. No, and therefore, right and wrong are learned through mistakes, but only a mistake in which you are open to and willing to learn from and admit was a mistake.

If you are ashamed by your mistake, then reverse your shame by not doing it again and learning the valuable lesson in that mistake. Those who are successful embrace their flaws and mistakes as a golden opportunity to learn and grow from what they have tried and failed at but don't stop trying, and therefore learn from them moments of failure through mistakes, and reap the rewards of a mistake turned accomplishment.

Every day is a new day and a new mistake is waiting for you to discover it. The only repeated mistakes are those you walk up to and knock on their door. You have a choice as to what you do and who you are. But sometimes what you feel is right one moment you may feel is wrong after you do it, that my friend is a lesson through a mistake and one you know never to repeat again but to harness it's teachings so that next time you can do it the right way. But the only way you are going to know what the right way is, is to endure and never give up, trying new things until you have found the one that works. This is how most things are created.

When we apply a mistake to other things, such as love, hate, life and how to live it, the same rules apply. An example of my own is this, I have been unloved my whole life, a family that doesn't want me and so kicked me out, an abusive husband I divorced and a bunch of guys I have dated who only wanted me for sex. I grew to even hate myself and find my self worthless though inside I knew this wasn't so. In my search for someone to love me I met a man online who

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