Mistakes do not define you
My father was a wonderful man. He was proud and wise and taught us a lot about the values we have today. (My mother was equally wonderful and I have many happy memories about their kind, selfless outlook on life and what I learned from them.)
One of the most important lessons I learned from him was
The goodness in a man runs much further than a decision made in one moment in time and a mistake is not a mistake if you can correct it.
We so often tend to judge people by one mistake they made in life, even if they try and turn their lives around. We will keep on hammering on the time when they made the mistake and mistrust them because of that.
We must watch out for this and understand that all people have good in them and one or two mistakes (which we all make) does not define who you are.
This does not mean you can keep on making the same mistake over and over and hurt people in your way, then you are not learning anything, or you simply do not care enough about others.
I see this a lot with my kids in class - too scared to answer because they do not want to make a mistake or get laughed at. I tell them every day How will we learn if we do not make mistakes?
Being the mother of an adult child is not always easy, standing by and watching how your child makes the wrong decisions are even worse, but at one or other stage we must let go and let them make their mistakes, and hope and pray they will come out in one piece on the other side, and if they cannot change their decisions, or correct their mistakes, learn to deal with the consequences.
Nobody ever said making and correcting mistakes are easy, but not giving up and learning from it and not judging people for some mistakes they make or letting it define them, that is the secret to it all.
(For some quotes on mistakes you can read https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/mistakes.html)
Making small mistakes is good. Just try to avoid the fatal huge mistake that will cripple you for life. No risk, no gain.
Agree 100%
@anneke upvoted bro