The Art of Making Mistakes
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida Another eventful year coming to an end… And since this year, the new trend is ‘looking back’ I thought I would reflect on these wonderful opportunities that we all encountered on several occasions throughout the year: Our mistakes, and those chances that we didn’t take. A lot of times, we forego certain opportunities just because we live in fear that they won’t work out. We are scared because there is a chance of us being wrong. And this is because we live with the notion that it is wrong to even be wrong. However, what we fail to see, is that every mistake is a chance to learn. Every time we refrain from asking our teacher a question when we didn’t really get what they said, because we feel that it could be looked at as a silly question, we miss that chance. Every time