There’s this well-known, common, universal thing that we all do. What is it? We all make mistakes.
It’s the worst feeling. I’m sure you probably know that feeling I’m referring to quite well. It’s the only feeling that comes after you’ve made a mistake. Yeah, I know it. I’m gonna lie… It’s pretty horrible.
You feel like such an idiot.
You think to yourself, “How I could have done that?”
You have all of these different thoughts going on inside your head about how you made that one mistake. You may even keep mentally beating yourself up about, even hours after it happened. Yeah, I’ve been there too.
Truthfully, I hate how I beat up on myself about making a mistake, because I know that realistically we have to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. That’s how we grow. That’s how we become better. So, yeah, we will make mistakes all throughout our lives and we can bounce back from them.
I have admit that I have this thing with perfectionism has really held me back throughout my life. The only way I have found I can move forward from it, is to cherish being human. It’s the purest thing we are.
When you think about it, perfectionism is really dumb. It’s really no way to live or to discover who you are. I feel like our society has put this pressure on us about not making mistakes, about how we should not fail. I have found the way that we can let go of my perfectionism is by taking the opposite approach around everything society says on how we shouldn’t make mistakes. Succumb to making mistakes, because you will and that’s OK.
No, I don’t want to make mistakes just to make them, but I’m not going to beat myself up about them anymore and you shouldn’t either. We should let go of beating up on ourselves and let go of any mode of perfectionism. Instead, we should embrace our failures, embrace our flaws, and of course, embrace our mistakes. As long as we’re learning from them and don’t repeat them, then I think we’re good. Life is a journey so let’s start embracing its beautiful process.
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