Life has been very generous to me, because, in the absence of my children I have nieces and nephews, I am even a great-aunt, and some of them are very close to me, since sometimes I took care of them when my sisters needed help, so I had to deal with my nieces and nephews as if they were my children.
When we are young, no one tells us how important a mistake can be, not even at school they value it, on the contrary, they censure you for it, however, all learning occurs after a series of mistakes.
I don't know if it happened to all of you, but at home, I was scolded or punished if I made a mistake, the same at school, so we tried to avoid mistakes at all costs, so I began to imitate others and if they were doing well, so was I, this made me disguised for a large part of my life, taking away my originality.
When I look back on my life, I see the importance of the mistakes I made at the time, because it was through them that I was able to learn what I should and should not do, have or say, what others did only diverted me from my learning to become an impostor.
Undoubtedly, every mistake has its consequences, but how else can you learn; perfection does not exist, that was very difficult for me to assimilate because they always told me so, however, I could never reach it, I even thought that something was wrong with me because I did not meet the ideal pre-established by society.
With time, I proved that there is nothing wrong with me and that it is okay to be the way I am, that the mistakes I made allowed me to achieve the knowledge I have today. In such a way that I encouraged my nieces, nephews, grandnephews, and all the children and young people with whom they had to share in this time, to risk making mistakes. They are the source of an infinity of learning, of life experience, because it will always be much better to say I know it, after all, I lived it more than I would have liked to live it.
This is my entry for the #bom theme of the month Lessons for my (grandchildren) children from my school of life.
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