One of the most important lessons I learned from him was
We so often tend to judge people by one mistake they made in life, even if they try and turn their lives around. We will keep on hammering on the time when they made the mistake and mistrust them because of that.
This does not mean you can keep on making the same mistake over and over and hurt people in your way, then you are not learning anything, or you simply do not care enough about others.
I see this a lot with my kids in class - too scared to answer because they do not want to make a mistake or get laughed at. I tell them every day How will we learn if we do not make mistakes?
Being the mother of an adult child is not always easy, standing by and watching how your child makes the wrong decisions are even worse, but at one or other stage we must let go and let them make their mistakes, and hope and pray they will come out in one piece on the other side, and if they cannot change their decisions, or correct their mistakes, learn to deal with the consequences.
(For some quotes on mistakes you can read here)
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