LEARNING FROM MISTAKES AND SECOND CHANCES

As we know, changes happen all the time. Think about it.. how have our lives changed through the years. Some of the changes are based on our conscious decisions, while some changes are inevitable and we just have to follow the flow. From the day we were born, whether we realize it or not, we have been making decisions for ourselves and would have already made a lot of mistakes. Some still haunt us till today. But through those mistakes, we are able to grow up. And as we grow up, we become a better decision maker. The more mistake we make, the more we learn and the wiser we become.

And very often, mistakes happen when we are faced with changes that we are unfamiliar with. This is because our mind would need more time to consider the best option to react to the changes and due to that, we may end up picking the wrong option.

That is how learning process works.

If we were to repeat the situation in which we have made a mistake before, our mind should now recognize the situation. So, it is unlikely that we are going to pick the same option because our mind now knows that it would lead to the same outcome - a mistake. We would have learned from it and will pick the other option.

Everybody deserve that chance to make things right pick the other option. Learning from mistakes is indeed a build-in human ability.

Now, let's move the other part of this topic - "Second Chances".

Some of us may be strict and demand for perfection, while some may be more lenient in giving second chances. Then there are those who frequently takes advantage of the leniency of others by continue to repeat the same mistakes, with the confident that they will always be forgiven and getting second chances. Well, we all know that second chances may not always be the case.

It is sometimes disheartening to see a person's future ruined from their mistakes in the past and was not given a second chance to prove otherwise. But it is also equally disheartening to see a person not learning from his mistakes and keep repeating them.

So, who gets to decide the deserving criteria for second chances? And who gets to decide how many 'second chances' that one person deserve?

Here are some quotes I collected from the internet:

"Sometime you need second chances, because time wasn't ready for the first one"

"Life isn't forever, so make sure we do our best the first time because sometimes there aren't any second chances"

"Everyone makes mistakes in life, but that does not mean that they have to pay for it for the rest of their life. Good people makes bad choices too sometimes. It doesn't mean that they are bad. It just means that they are human"

"You cannot call it a mistake, when you do it over and over again"

"Second chances does not always lead to a happy ending, but at least we don't have to keep wondering 'what if..?' "

WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEONE SECOND CHANGES? HOW MANY WOULD YOU GIVE?