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Something you need to know about this life journey
One thing I have been learning about myself lately is that I can be too hard on myself sometimes and When something doesn't go the way I planned I can spend a lot of time thinking about it and asking myself what I did wrong and sometimes I forget that I am still learning, there are days when I make a mistake and immediately start blaming myself.
I will keep thinking about what I should have done differently and what I should have said, or how I could have avoided the situation but Honestly, doing that too much can make you feel tired, so as I have grown, I am beginning to understand that making mistakes is part of life and Nobody gets everything right all the time.
Even the people we look up to have made mistakes at different points in their lives but the difference is that some people learn from theirs and keep moving and
I am trying to do the same. There was a time when I thought making a mistake meant I had failed but Now I see it differently, A mistake can also show you something you didn't know before and It can teach you how to handle a similar situation better next time.
For example, if I make a bad decision instead of only feeling bad about it, I try to ask myself what I can learn from it. Maybe I rushed into the decision, Maybe I didn't ask enough questions, Maybe I trusted the wrong person, Whatever the reason is, I can learn from it and try not to repeat the same thing again.
I'm not saying it is always easy though but
Sometimes you know you should move on but your mind keeps going back to what happened and You start thinking about how things would have been if you had made a different choice But the truth is that we can't go back and change yesterday, What we can do is make better decisions today.
I'm also learning that everybody has bad days and there are days when I don't feel motivated and days when things don't work out and days when I just want to stay quiet and rest. Before I would sometimes feel guilty about that but now I understand that resting doesn't mean I'm lazy.
Sometimes you simply need to breathe and start again.
I have also stopped expecting myself to have everything figured out immediately, I am still a student, still learning about life and still trying to understand what direction I want to take in the future because there are many things I don't know yet and that's okay and I believe personal growth is not about becoming perfect, It is about becoming better little by little. Maybe today I handle a situation badly but tomorrow I can handle it better. Maybe I made a mistake today but I can learn from it and avoid making the same mistake again and that is progress too.
So these days whenever I make a mistake, I try to remind myself that one bad decision doesn't define who I am and One difficult period doesn't mean my whole life will be difficult so I can learn, adjust and try again. I'm still working on myself and honestly I know I still have plenty to learn But I'm becoming more patient with myself and I think that is one of the best things I can do for my own growth.
Life is already challenging enough so I don't want to become another person putting unnecessary pressure on myself,
I will make mistakes and I will learn, I will correct myself and I will keep moving, I know I'm not perfect but I'm just trying to become better than the person I was yesterday.
