What if You Make a Mistake?

Oops.

I made a mistake.

It happens more often than I like.

But internet lawyers jump on bandwagons with pitchforks to highlight the little error and ignore the message.

It’s easy to overlook a point when you’d rather find a reason to dismiss it.

Which is why there are so many internet experts with Facebook degrees who ignore the facts.

It doesn’t help when the facts seem to contradict each other.

Which can happen when you live in a bubble and surround yourself with people who look like you, act like you and think like you.

Another contradiction, I know.

The internet experts on being happy say do build a life that makes you happy, and eliminate most of the things that don’t.

What if surrounding yourself with people who look, act and think like you is what makes you happy?

I make a lot of mistakes.

I try to learn from them.

I try not to repeat them.

But sometimes I do, hoping for a different outcome.

Sometimes it works.

The thing about making a lot of mistakes is who I surround myself with.

People who don’t consider “getting it wrong” a catastrophe.

Who think, “getting it wrong” is just a way to learn how to get it right.