Mistakes

I agree with Natasha Bedingfield. I'm pretty sure we've all been conditioned to not make mistakes. In fact, that our society does not condone mistakes. The big problem is that sometimes you don't realize that you are making them.

In life, it's a given that you're often going to need to make decisions without all the information. What do you do when you realize you were missing some doozeys and now your life is a mess? Rebuild?

Right, rebuild. Sometimes you can catch a mistake and correct where you are. Other times, the scarier times, the foundation is so chinked and damaged, you've got to gut your whole life and start all over. Scarier because you see the collapse coming but you try so hard to correct your course and it feels like a futile, worthless attempt. Shoveling shit against the wind, slippery slope, take your pick.

Once you are on that road, things only get better after you hit rockbottom. Unless of course, you're from that school of thought that thinks things can always get worse. For you lot, allowed no hope, you're in for a rough, scraping ride.

For the rest of us, hopefully we can focus on the possiblity that with a do-over, we can end up with something even better.

The key is trusting yourself to get you there.