Mistakes put the details in place. They are like the bauxite that when processed produces a mixture of metal. Many great inventions are the result of brutal mistakes; yet, many times I was expected to believe and accept that mistakes are a no-no. I have struggled to understand how and why making a mistake makes me a reject, a failure, one who would never get anything right or amount to anything, anything good.
Why on earth did I listen to these gossipers? The word gossipers by the way, in the original sense of the word meant caregivers who were the one entrusted with one’s life when people are too young to care for their welfare. The most important role anyone can play in another’s life and this is what they did with precious souls. Is it any wonder this word now holds no pristine?
Even knowing that mistakes are the wellsprings of invention, imagination and creativity, I still get frazzled from the dread of making a faux pas. Maybe one day I will invent something that makes God become visible and real. Maybe I will defy science, politics and religion. Wouldn’t that be a marvellous invention? Without mistakes there would be no wows, ah-has, yauwch, yikes, mmmmm, ooh…. la…lah, oh no, yes, yes, yes! Mistake- a pause in time, when one feels original… one feels awesome. Mistakes…. ready or not, here I come!
So Dear God I pray, make me not afraid of making mistakes that are necessary for me to make sense of what I am supposed to do to make all my dreams come true. In the meantime help me to continue spreading my wings full span and let me stay connected with the moment’s lessons.
It turns out that my dumbest mistakes produced the best part of me!
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