Do you know what I've been discovering? We don't know the first thing about life, and ourselves. As a therapist, I spend hours a week explaining my impressions of people's struggles and relationships to them, and this is an appreciated and necessary service because we humans don't seem to get the half of what goes on around us. Five years ago, I thought that I was a really open-minded and adventurous individual because I'd lived in loads of places and I'd seen a lot. I was
so wrong. Two years ago, I experienced the worst depression of my life, and I have never been the same since. Imagine being
dangerously depressed! Me!
Ms.
Incontrol was emotionally engorged and in desperate need of others, partially because nothing was happening as I thought it should, and my plan couldn't comfort me. I saw myself in a totally different light after that, because almost
no one knew how at risk I was even right as it was happening.
I didn't really mean to get quite so heavy, but I was thinking about the fact that sometimes it takes a HUGE world shaker to wake us up to our own mindsets and occasionally, mistakes. Five-years-ago-me would have thought that you should avoid mistakes like the plague - I was so extreme that a potential mother-in-law of mine gave me a plaque that read "
Don't be afraid to fail." I am learning that mistakes are
so valuable. Months ago I wrote a post
On being Wrong, and the main message was that encountering life's losses caused grief, and this was because we humans
do not like to be wrong. Today's post is about expanding your mind to see how your being wrong was/is beneficial for you now. I
so value the mistakes that I made in the last two years especially, because they brought me out of myself and showed me that there was something a lot better for me out there.
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