"Life is full of them"

“Mistakes, life is full of them, apparently” Someone once said to me, and that is the honest truth. If you are going through life thinking that nothing is ever your fault and that you haven’t made mistakes then, well you have a big wakeup call coming your way my friend. The fact is, mistakes are what make and shape you as a person. They teach you lessons that you would not learn otherwise, they teach you a lot about yourself and what is right and wrong.

I will be the first to admit that I hate being in the wrong and knowing that I am the one who needs to apologise. That being said, I will always own up to it once I realise that it is the case. We all say things we don’t mean, make rash decisions and fuck up every once in a while. Some do this more than others, but at the end of the day - ALL of us do it. Sometimes we will stand by what we have said or done and do not believe we are in the wrong and that’s ok too, but you have affected somebody else with your actions so the least that you can do is feel and be sorry for the way you have made them feel. Sometimes you won’t apologise for what has happened because it was the right thing to do, but you should appreciate that perhaps it was the wrong way to go about it.

Yes, we make mistakes but no, we shouldn’t regret anything. You apologise, hold no grudges and you move on. If you don’t do this it will be only you who is left feeling miserable and angry and nobody wants that, do they? The bottom line is, carry on making mistakes – you’re human after all, it’s impossible not to. But make sure that you learn from them, everything that happens in life is a valuable lesson for the future. Don’t hold onto what happened but appreciate what went wrong and what should have been done/said differently, then drop it and move on.