Making Mistakes...

"Know Where To Make Your Mistakes, And When To Laugh At Them."

Just feel like sharing this with everyone reading my blog.

Knowing where to make our mistakes is what I believe to be one of the most important life skill I learned so far, especially since I tend to make LOTS of mistakes.

Knowing where the costs of mistakes are lower and thus adjusting the amount of risk to take, knowing where you are allowed to make mistakes and most importantly, learning from all the painful lessons taught to us by every single mistake we make, is what I believe to be one of the most beautiful aspect of our lives. Making mistakes and learning from it makes us stronger, and help us grow as a person.

Laughing at our mistakes is not as easy as it sounds. Imagine trying to laugh in pain and sadness. Often acceptance is the hardest part. Whether we able to take a mistake in our stride and laugh at it or not has something to do with our our wisdom and maturity.

Encouragement and forgiveness will help ease the pain and make it easier for us to laugh. But at the end of the day, what I feel is that whether we see mistakes as opportunities to learn life's important lessons and laugh, or as an evidence of our utter weakness and sulk, depends very much on whether we are pessimist or optimists, which is why optimist then to fare better in the 'aftermath' of a mistake.

But it does not mean it is the 'end of the world' for pessimist. They can too master the fine art of laughing at our own mistakes, just that it takes a little more effort thats all. But then again, pessimist are generally more careful and hence make less mistakes. So I guess it sort of balances out. =)