Oops: A mistake post about...a mistake

Just now I was sitting on my couch after dinner with the television on; I wasn't really watching it as I was playing around with a draft-post I've had sitting around for a while...and there's where the problems started. I'd been reading it, making a few edits here and there and then, rather than click save, clicked...post. Fucking hell, I hate it when that happens.

I generally don't like posting too closely together and all of a sudden I had two posts in reasonably rapid succession. To say I was annoyed would be an understatement.

Now, I have seen people do this sort of thing before, mistake posts, and I guess what people generally do is edit the text right out and write MISTAKE or maybe DELETED in the text box and update the post. I'm not keen on that as I don't want a post like that to appear on my post feed...So I added an image, my own of course, and decided to call out my own mistake with some text.

As I wrote I hit update now and then as it didn't sit well with me that I had a post on the blockchain that was, well, rather fucken shit.

You don't have to delete

I had a chat with my brother Hive account@tarazkp about this a while back, and I think he wrote a post about mistake posts and that they don't have to be totally deleted. If a person can edit to delete, they can edit and update the post to have some valid content right? Of course, I'm right as I did it with this post.

It's personal choice though and if the user doesn't mind a totally blank post in their personal post feed then just delete the text and move on, but I'm not that way inclined.

I like my post feed to look good, it's a showcase of myself after all and I like to present the best I can, as often as I can. So, I decided to add this image, one I was saving for a really good post about cutting ties to toxic people, and decided to write some more text. Sure, I can't help the fact I posted only a few hours after my last but I think we're all entitled to make a mistake now and then, yes? I mean, we're all human and we all make mistakes huh?

This proves I'm a knucklehead

I have made so many mistakes in my life, small and large and some that have endured for many years after the fact; some of them have been incredibly embarrassing and others not so much. I guess, again, I'm flawed and fallible like other human beings...but I'm so fucken annoyed at myself tonight and if there was any doubt that I was a knucklehead, it's been cleared up. I am.

I guess, as with the other mistakes I have made in life, I can learn from this one, as can others.

I don't like seeing deleted posts and if I see them in my communities I mute them and return any rewards to the reward pool. I guess people think that's the best they can do though, to just delete the text. But, like my brother said in his post, you can edit in text, just as easily as you can edit out text, as I have done with this one.

Anyway, I'm not going to be too hard on myself for being human. I'm going to build a bridge and move on...But not just yet. Tonight I'm going to feel like an idiot for making such a dumb mistake.

Have a good weekend y'all. Go make some mistakes worse than mine and let me know about them in the comments below so I get to feel a bit better about the fact we all make mistakes.