During the family weekend we took the kids to the park and my youngest niece made a sand angel, on which she then drew... a smiley face! Was this coincidence or the world trying to tell me something? Am I over thinking this? Maybe, and maybe that's another lesson to learn. Sometimes things don't go as we planned and sometimes we make mistakes, but the trick is to look at it differently, as an 'attempt' we learn from then let it go instead of carrying it around for fear of making the same mistake again. As I was driving the other day the song 'Wake Me Up' by Avicii came on the radio and for the first time I listened to the lyrics "I tried carrying the weight of the world, but I only have two hands" and it made me think. Apparently Thomas Edison invented the light bulb on his 1000th attempt and was quoted as saying "I have not failed 1000 times, I have successfully found 1000 ways that will not work."
As if by some other coincidence, I have a day to view calendar on my desk at work, and each day has a quote. Last week one of the quotes was "some mistakes are too much fun to only make once." It is important to learn from them, but it's just as important, if not more, to then let it go.
The sand angel smiley face |
Inspiration for this post came from a few articles I have read on the Tiny Buddha website:
http://tinybuddha.com/blog/use-self-acceptance-to-learn-from-the-past-and-let-it-go/
http://tinybuddha.com/blog/be-more-childlike-life-can-be-beautiful/
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