Miss And Take

Mistakes, Mistakes, Mistakes; things we find wrong, embarrassing and/or just plain stupid. And whether or not it froze or replayed in our memory, we have to deal with the fact that it has been part of our history.

I finally reached the finish line of a disastrously unlucky, mentally tiring and somewhat happy third sophomore week and I’ve been searching for an inspiration to at least start a freaking blog post. Now, it is finally taking place and the inspiration is the lecture from my history class which I consider the incident that started the adjective proclaimed week I was telling.

Most of you who don’t know, history is such a pain in my ass. I can’t keep up with the dates, the sequence of the Cold War or the truth about the Spanish hegemony. This subject should be inside my I-have-no-choice-but-to-do-this bucket along with Mathematics and Political Science. But last Monday, there was a statement from my professor that I can’t get over with until now. It was a slap in my face and I’m pretty sure that it was not only me who got Rihannaed in the class of 25. This can possibly make me remove my perception about history out of the bucket. But we’ll see more about that later.

“To commit a mistake is human but to repeat the mistake is stupidity.”

If you’re against this quotation, please press alt + F4, hit your head with whatever is in front of you because darling, you are probably an outer space /earth-disturbing freak looking funny on a horse. This is an accurate experience-proven cavalry charge.

Most of us would say that “The past is the past” because we are trying to move on or just forget the wrong things in the right way. But sometimes this famous quote doesn’t always have to be the answer to our emotional belief about moving on because the “past” that some of us are trying to forget or escape is somehow worth remembering simply because it is someone’s life guideline for better decision-making. Maybe I am trying to dig the treasure in the end of this motionless rainbow or maybe I am trying to transform a yellow lego to SpongeBob SquarePants but either way, I am just trying to preach one thing: mistakes aren’t always a bad thing (depending on the situation and on the person, of course).

It is good to hear that the majority wouldn’t make or will try not to make the same mistake or regret but, sadly, there are still people who would press rewind and play. And I am allegedly accusing myself to be somehow part of the latter.

Useless and stupid mistakes, as explained, happens to:
1. those who listed the “not to do’s” for their new year’s resolution but failed,
2. those who got their heart broken for so many times, cried so many times, and cried for so many times again, and /or
3. those who said “sorry” but ended up saying sorry over and over again until he or she is not worth it to be forgiven anymore.

I am a rational animal and I am, most of the time, too stupid to face promises such as “I won’t do this anymore”. And I am not hoping for a mistake-free individual to exist because that’s like hoping for the sun to rise from the south. But someone can always try to live a life full of different mistakes and not the same ones.

Destiny, in a long run, is a different story.