Bless Your Mistakes

Swami Vivekananda says, "What is done is done.... Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds.... You cannot undo, the effect must come, face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again".

Humans make mistake, it's in their nature. In our day to day life we tend to make mistakes. There is no Man on this earth who has never made a mistake. We all make mistakes which in turn bring its effects, we suffer and brood over it. But the important thing is, if we all can learn a lesson from it. Yes, every mistake, big or small, has a lesson hidden in it. We all have to take a lesson. Many times we make a mistake and we brood over it for our entire Life. Important thing to note is that it's our mistakes in life that make us successful provided we take a lesson from it and never repeat those. 

When we make mistakes, we run away from it. Why? The reason behind this is we do not want to face the coming situation after making the mistake or we do not want to try anymore i.e, our confidence becomes less. Every action has its effect , this is the eternal law of nature. So effect is bound to come. Face it boldly, Swamiji says. Face the effect because the thing is by facing this you become more strong from inside. Every successful man is first unsuccessful. Success is nothing but learning from the mistakes, facing the consequences and to never make that mistake again.

So, we all should bless our mistakes because they teach us a lot. The best example of failure and success is of Abraham Lincoln, the 17th President of U.S.A who lost job, failed in business, his wife died then he had nervous break down. Then after joining politics he was defeated several times, at last he was elected as President. But despite all of these he kept on going, he kept learning and made sure that he never repeat mistakes. All great people made mistakes and took great lessons from it. So we can say that mistakes are great teachers in life.

Great inventor Thomas Alva Edison who invented electric bulb, motion picture camera etc., says "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....". So we learn a lot from our mistakes.

 Swami Vivekananda says, "In all our actions, errors and mistakes are our only teachers. Who commits mistakes, the path of truth is attainable by him only. Trees never make mistakes nor do stones fall into error; animals are hardly seen to transgress the fixed laws of nature; but man is prone to err, and it is man who becomes God-on-earth." In other saying he says, "Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life... It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow- never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backsliding! Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more".

So, we all should try to bless our mistakes , face the consequences ,learn a lesson from them and be careful to never make it again.