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June 11th, 2009 - Scared Of Making Mistakes
Marsha Maung
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one – John C. Maxwell.
The above statement cannot truer even if I tried to make it untrue. But let’s face it, fearlessness is something that kids are really good at. They see a swing, they don’t see the sharp edges sticking out of the wood, they don’t hear the creaky sound that it makes when they swing too high on it, they don’t think, even for a minute, that it could fall off.
All they see is them swinging on it, caution thrown to the wind, laughter, unbridled fun, the air gushing past them, gravity sending chills down their tummies, and endless number of minutes arguing about who could swing higher.
And when it’s time to stop the swinging, they don’t worry about missing a step or breaking their ankles trying to stop the swing. Instead, they focus on throwing themselves as far off away from the swing as possible, without breaking rhythm. Friends would challenge each other to a contest of ‘who can throw themselves’ closer to the slide’ at the end of the day.
Such uninhibited fun….and adults lose the ability to embrace that somewhere along the way.
Burdened by responsibilities
It’s hard to say when it is that we subconsciously lose the ability to have fun. Maybe it’s when we enter the ‘real’ world of adulthood. Maybe it’s during the teenage years when our parents push us towards better grades. Maybe it’s when we lose our friends to car crashes or illnesses. Either way, we will, inevitably, finding ourselves losing grip on the ability to have fun and make mistakes.
Kids never worry, not much, about making mistakes unless it was the parents who continually pummel into their heads about ‘not making too many mistakes’ or ‘how dangerous things are’ or ‘how we’re not cutting it compared to our cousins’.
They just do things because they feel like doing it and they fear not about making mistakes. That’s an important lesson that most adults have to re-learn. It’s very ironic because parents spend endless number of hours trying to teach their kids about how to behave, their maths and how to tie their shoelaces.
It’s only when you have a kid of your own that you realize that the kids have something to re-teach you themselves.
What’s the worst thing that could happen?
On making mistakes, let’s apply the adult version of the kids’ ‘I don’t care what you think’ mentality to it. The twist would be this….what’s the worst that could happen? The answer to that, most of the time, is failure and disappointment. Well, some answers go beyond that, like sickness, illness, death, teasing from friends, a divorce, losing your home, nagging parents, etc but if you sit down and think about it, is that possibility supposed to stop you from doing what you want to do?
Let’s say you decide to make a move from being an engineer to being a lawyer….what’s the worst thing that could happen? You fail. And then you move back into engineering….or start a knitting business…whatever hits you at that time.
Think about it. Is that so bad?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marsha Maung is a Malaysian-based freelance web copywriter with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her blog for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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<b>Marsha Maung</b> is a Malaysian-based <a href="http://www.marshamaung.com" target="_blank">freelance writer</a> with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her <a href="http://www.marshamaung.blogspot.com" target="_blank">blog</a> for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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