Learning from mistakes

I made a "funny" blundering some days ago. A piece of liver was left in the shopping trolley for days and instantly it was rotten to smell awfully. The whole flat was polluted by the unbearable smell without any clue until last midnight when my husband realized it must be something wrong in the trolley bag.

This morning I spent 3 hour thoroughly cleaning the room and esp. the kitchen from floors to the cabinets. The smell is almost gone. Just enjoying the sparkling cleaning result, I smelled something else from Gen's school stuff on the sofa taken back from the hall when I tidied them up.

It was some white food residue in a plastic box and the spoon was stained with same as well exposed out, not inside the box.

So, it looks, in a hurry, people tend to make mistakes. No one wants to make it. The thing is mistakes will be turned to wisdom if we learn from them and be smarter next time.

Problems are not problems because everything is neutral. The only problems are when we don't know how to response.

learning a lesson and never carrying it on to the future is the best gift from our mistakes.

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” 
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

2-6-2013