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Mistakes you’re allowed to make
Giving yourself permission to f*$& up
We can be pretty hard on ourselves sometimes, can’t we?
We do something wrong and punish ourselves internally again and again, wishing we had done something different. All those ifs and buts don’t matter as we drive ourselves down into a pit of despair.
There’s anger and frustration at ourselves and hopefully at the end forgiveness. If we know how to be kind that is.
What we do to ourselves could even be worse than when other people do it to us. When you make a mistake that other people don’t let you forget, a mistake they bring up in conversation later on, be it a few months or a few years. Forgive but not forget, the motto of many.
A time for mistakes
Let’s head to a time when making mistakes was the norm, at a time they were just things you did and sometimes you felt like you could never do anything right.
Your teenage years.
A period of experimenting, pushing boundaries, saying and doing the wrong thing, sometimes accidentally and sometimes on purpose.
For some it felt like they were always in the bad books, with their teachers, their parents and those of the opposite sex. For others they were so scared of…
