If you had a chance to go back and change something would you? Maybe it was the night you were young and wild or maybe it was the night that forever changed your life. I am not the person I was last year, or even a few months ago. All the choices I have made, good or bad, have shaped me into being a better person. My mistakes do not make me. I do not regret making the wrong choice, through my wrong choices I have learned so much. It is better to make the mistake rather than wonder what would have happened if you didn’t make that same choice. If you have learned something in the end and it has bettered you, it was not a mistake.
Maybe your mistake was trusting the wrong person, or going out with the wrong guy. Without knowing the outcome of a situation, how do we know what is going to work out in a positive way? The choices we make build us, they do not define us. The outcome from situations become a part of our character into making us the unique people we grow into over the course of a lifetime. Through trusting the wrong person, I have learned that trust is earned and not just given. From going out with the wrong guys, I have learned that I deserve so much better and I will only be respected if I respect myself. In the negative, there's always some positive. Mistakes and forgiveness go hand-in-hand. We give second chances and show compassion, and it is all tied up in a bow called life.
My mistakes and choices are like bricks. Every decision I have made impacted me in some way or another. The bricks stack up and eventually it becomes something beautiful. If I look at each brick individually, it is just a brick. If I look at the big picture, I see something much bigger. I am not my mistakes, I am everything in between. I am the reactions from my choices that define me. I am how I dealt with my mess-ups and fixed them.
People get judged by others for the mistakes they have made. They only see you for your choices and not the struggles you have conquered through them. My failures have led to my successes in life. My mistakes represent all the risks I have taken. We look at others and think about that one thing they did they you do not agree with at that becomes who they are to you. It does not have to be that way. We make wrong choices because we are human. We are subjected to fault and error. As humans, we are also subjected to forgiveness, and that is accepting either a mistake you made or someone else. Do not dwell on what could have been, seek what is in the now and let that make you stronger. My mistakes do not define who I am, the way I react to them and learn from them do.
