Trial and Error

I often confuse being wrong with being bad

I look at my mistakes

My past, my regrets

And think that the decisions I made make me a bad person.

That every incorrect choice is a failure.

But now I think the fundamental difference between being bad and being wrong

Is the pursuit to correct the error and admit the flaw.

I’m not a monster for messing up.

I’m a human for messing up.

You can get plenty of things wrong on a test and still pass the class.

And as long as I acknowledge those screw ups, those mistakes, those regrets, and do all that I can to grow from them and avoid repeating them

Then that, I think, is the first right thing I have done in a while