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Chapter 9
Don’t Define Yourself By Mistakes
Synopsis
There is no need for you to live a life full of shame and regret and guilt. You must never make your mistakes define you. You are more than that poor response, that bad choice, that one rebellious moment than all or any of the mistakes and failures that you had – present, past, or in the future.
You are Not Your Mistakes
As a human, you are always bound to make mistakes – whether in your personal life, your marriage, your work, your family. Everyone will make mistake, a wrong choice at a certain point in your life. All mistakes that you make should be the source of your strength. These mistakes must be the lessons that you learn in your life. Grow from them. Be better because of them. Make the necessary amendments and continue with your life. You should not cling or dwell on your mistakes for the rest of your remaining years on this earth.
All people have a path to follow. All people have choices that decide the path where they should go down. Once you make a mistake, just say sorry. Fix your mistake if possible and vow that you will do better in the future. It will help change the path you are taking, giving you the chance to become a better person.
Use your mistakes not just for making yourself better but also for teaching your children and other people around you to avoid making a similar mistake.
It is completely shameful to hold your mistakes over others, use it against them or blackmail them. Every now and then, you will make mistakes and holding it over another person’s head is yet another mistake. In the same way that God forgives, everyone should too. You have to let go of things. You have to let people amend or change their mistakes, turn things into a better direction and not continuously beat them up for them.
Never allow your mistakes to pull you down. Don’t define yourself by the mistakes that you made. Keep your head up. Pick yourself up. Acknowledge the wrongs that you have done. Learn from the mistakes you made and become a better version of yourself. Give the people around you with the same benefit of the doubt and understand that just like you, they also make mistakes but just like you, they can also get past these things.
Forgiveness is always the key. Forgive others. Forgive yourself. Move on.