Mistakes in life! A little experiment of how we learn.

[AnIndependentTexan]

We know that life is not always perfect. We also know that everyone of us makes a few mistakes every now and then. I'd like to share some of the mistakes I've made and just see were we are able to go with this. You are welcome to add your own mistakes as well. This is to show we are not perfect and to be human is to make mistakes. The best part though is we are able to learn from our mistakes.

When I was around 5 or 6 my parents bought me bunk bed. We had just finished setting them up when my cousins taught me a new game. Their game was called airplane. The point of the game was to jump off the bunk bed and onto the floor pretending you are a airplane. Let's just say man was not meant to fly alone.
My mistake was thinking this was a good game. When my cousins left I wanted to try it again only this time I fell on my left arm and broke my elbow. They had to stick a pen in the place that I broke it. Lesson here is airplanes might be fun to ride in, but please remember you are not a real airplane.

Middle school was also full of one big mistake. That was that my little sister didn't know how to clean her toys. She was around 4 or 5 years old and the hallway connecting my room to hers was FULL of toys. At that time the upstairs bathroom was not usable so I had to go to the downstairs one. The problem with this is I just woke up to get ready for school and had a unpleasant meeting with a toy called Mr. Bucket. I ended up tripping over it. I broke my left wrist. Lesson here is no matter how young the child is please pick up the toys or you'll end up making a unpleasant friend of Mr. Bucket.

Luckily I didn't break anything in High school, but College was a fun time because we had two breaks. The first one was late at night watching anime. You may ask how anime can cause a broken bone? Well let me tell you that Chinese food and anime don't mix together. It was about 2am and I had just finished watching 10 straight episodes of one series. The tray that had my Chinese food needed to go downstairs and be cleaned. I made it about halfway down the stairs when the left over Chinese food went flying everywhere. Most of it was left over rice that cast the effect of snow falling down at Christmas time. However, I ended up with a broken foot. Lesson here is Chinese food is great and so is anime, but don't mix the two at late hours of the night when you should be in bed.

Remember I said that was just the first one that happen during college. The second one happen when I was at work. I worked at the student print label while I was in college. This gave me a chance to get to know what happens more behind the scenes and interact more with the professors. We were a print-lab/copy-lab that made copies every start of the quarter. That was a our big time when every teacher had their so called rule book that they would get copied up and tell what is going to happen during this quarter with this class. Our manager at the print-lab was also new. She basically stacked them everywhere in boxes. We only had a little walk way. She also put the boxes behind the chair meaning you had to STEP over the boxes in order to get to the other end of the print-lab. For some reason the box felt I just had to go and when I stepped over it I tripped and came down hard on my left arm. This was a hard tile floor. Lesson here is again KEEP THINGS CLEAN.

Another part of that story is nobody believed that I broke my left ARM again. I believe this goes back to Karma and one thing I caused because my mom had fallen down the stairs and landed in a way she couldn't get up. We were all kids at the time. NONE of us believed that she had actually fallen and couldn't get up. We basically ignored it thinking she was joking. Then one of us happen to get worried after 2 hours and she was still there. I learned that day never to make fun of those commercials were old people fall and can not get up because if my mom who was around 30's to 40's couldn't get up it could happen to any of us.