Mistakes – an Ode
Mistakes – an Ode
Everyone makes them
When you’re dating, you make mistakes
When you’re married, you make mistakes
When you’re a child, you make mistakes
When you’re an adult, you make mistakes
When you’re asleep, you probably make mistakes (snoring etc.)
When you’re awake, you definitely make mistakes
When you’re sick, you make mistakes
When you’re healthy, you make mistakes
When you’re religious, you make mistakes (although some don’t own up to it)
When you’re secular, you make mistakes (even though you might be “secularer-than-thou”, ‘fess up)
When you’re in school, you make mistakes
When you’re working, you make mistakes
When you are in the depth of despair, you make mistakes
When you’re deliriously happy, you make mistakes
When you think you’re perfect, you make mistakes
When you think you’re worthless, you make mistakes
Mistakes are probably as much of life as breathing (some of us are mistakes, but that’s a whole other story). There are probably those who will say we even make mistakes when we’re dead.
Moral of the story? If we’re going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well enjoy them?
“Oh… Everyone makes mistakes oh yes they do!
Your sister and your brother and your dad and momma too.
Big people, small people, matter of fact – all people!
Everyone makes mistakes oh yes they do.”
-Big Bird.
Yup. After 8 years in education, 4 public speaking courses and 12 years of public speaking I was at a simcha this past week and gave the worst, cliched, dumbest-sounding, dvar torah/bracha I’ve heard in a long time.
Yup. Keep pluggin.
Thanks YS!