Mistakes--the world is full of them. Mistakes make us exactly who we are. Hard as we may try, we can't avoid them-not completely.

This life we live is full of choices. At the start, no choice is right or wrong, but the choices made by another CAN make another choice to be a mistake. However, in my opinion, each and every choice we make-mistake or not-shapes us into exactly the person we are supposed to be.

As we go through this life, mistakes are a must! It's the only way to gain life experiences-good or bad-and learn from the mistakes we made in the first place. If no mistakes are made, how can we learn from them? The way to mold your best future is to stumble, and to make those mistakes. In doing so, it gives you something to learn from, as well as life experiences along the way. It makes for quite the adventure we call life, wouldn't you think?

I think that going through life, discovering who we are, is almost as great as reaching the end. The journey can be just as wonderful, as reaching the destination. Once you reach the end, what's left? The comfort of knowing we are exactly where we are supposed to end up, or possibly just finally catching a break. The possibilities are endless because your journey could have been marvelous and exciting, or miserable and heartbreaking.

If we rewind the clock, and go back to simpler times, when we were children: mistakes were as simple as a wrong answer on a quiz, or a test. Other times, it was simply doing things our parents told us not to do. In either circumstance, it gave the opportunity to learn from it. When you got a question wrong in school, you were able to see how or why it was wrong, and learn from it, so that you could know what was right. It's the same thing when you disobeyed your parents. With disobedience came discipline, which allowed you to learn to do right. That's our parents and teachers jobs while we grow up, to help correct our mistakes so that we may learn from them.

I can say, from experience, that you may want to throw blame on yourself for mistakes, but that couldn't be more wrong. If you are a bible believer, or follower, then you have learned that we are born imperfect beings. We were born to make mistakes, and that's just who we are. None of us are perfect, and we will continue to make mistakes until the end of our lives. Our mistakes in life allow us to have different lives from everyone else. Our path is paved by the choices we make, and that makes each of our lives unique.

Don't hang yourself up on where you might be if you had made less or no mistakes. Where it is true that things could be quite different, would you really change your entire life and all your experiences? I know I wouldn't. Negative life experiences give you wisdom for the future, and gives you direction and things to not do, or to avoid.

So, live your life, and make those mistakes, because at the end you will have all of that to look back on, and help everyone you can. Live, experience, and mold your best future.