Outweighed Mistakes

I've recently been giving a listening ear to my friends, and there seems to be this reoccurring theme of regretting past mistakes. I then find myself telling them that with each mistake comes a lesson and therefore each mistake is a like short term curse that becomes a long term gift that comes in the form of a lesson that enables them to not make the same folly twice. I say this to them because it reassures them and I believe it has a lot of truth to it. The problem is that recently I found myself asking if there are some instances where the lesson learned just simply wasn't substantial enough in relation to the mistake and its immediate effects.

I personally have made many bad mistakes and have found that the severity of many of them correlates with my stubborn nature. The simplest life lesson often becomes magnified when your too stubborn to actually take heed to it. I wonder if I was a little more open would the essential side effects of my mistakes have been lessened. Naturally I'll never know the answer to that notion but I've chosen to put it into practice more often and then see what happens. There is no unit of measure for mistakes aside from maybe big and small, but there's always the external effects of such mistakes. What may have been perceived as a personal small mistake may have effected someone on a much larger scale.

All in all if I had to put this all into an analogy I'd say I wouldn't want to spend $100 on a $10 piece of merchandise. Yes I still receive the merchandise and its benefits but at a lost of $90 and more importantly a lost that could have went towards a lot of other things in the mean time.