Making Mistakes

Mistakes. We all make them. We're walking down the street feeling pretty dang good about ourselves when suddenly *trip* CURSES! The rock throws off your groove. Instead of shaking it off, most times we worry if anyone saw our moment of clutziness, mentally kicking ourselves for not seeing the dang pebble, or best of all - denial: "Rock? Rock? What Rock? I didn't trip, I didn't mean to do that." But really, who cares if anyone saw? Who cares if you tripped and you're clumsy? It's just who you are and you're awesome anyways! Why deny it even happening?

Mistakes are made to learn, so laugh them off and continue on with the adventure that we call life. The point is to walk, stumble, then look at the rock and say, "Nice try! Try to derail me did ya?! Well who's laughin' now punk! It's OK, I'll know better next time," and move on.

Now the Twilight thing is obviously cliche and highly overrated, but despite that - the movie had a graduation speech that was pretty inspiring. Here's how it went...

When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were things like astronaut, president, or my case, a princess. When we were ten, they asked again. We answered: rock star, cowboy, or in my case, gold medalist. But now that we've grown up, they want a serious answer. Well how about this: who the hell knows? This isn't time to make hard and fast decisions, this is the time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love... A lot. Major in philosophy, cause there's no way to make a career out of it. Change your mind and change it again, because nothing is ever permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask again what we want to be, we won't have to guess. We'll just know.

Why are we always afraid to take a leap? Even if we plunge head first into the dirt, getting back up is half the fun. We all know that we can't really 'jump' over the moon, but trying is what really matters.

The greatest mistake that you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one - Elbert Hubbard

M.