Beautiful mistakes, not the song, but rather a look into the actual meaning.

They seem like opposites don’t they? How can mistakes be beautiful? The phrase is actually kind of funny. Let me start off by saying, mistakes can be ugly, but I bet the same thing does not come to mind when you and I think of ugly mistakes.

I think a lot of us are raised with heavy emphasis on punishing mistakes, so we subconsciously tend to dread making mistakes and when we do make them, inevitably, it often leaves us with so much pain and regret. This regret is what makes mistakes ‘ugly’, because they leave us with all this negativity and when that happens we tend to point fingers, blaming circumstances, people or even, funny enough, objects. Like when you stub your toe on a table leg and warn Mr table for hitting you.

But I find mistakes so beautiful! They are like beautifully carved stepping stones; every mistake is a step and we ascend higher and higher becoming newer and better people, isn’t that so beautiful? What happens when we don’t climb the steps, when we instead use the stones to build a wall and stay in one spot, regretting. From every mistake we make, we can grow into a new person, we can take from an experience, no matter how bad, and decide what impact it will have on us. We make mistakes to find paths, to shed light, to find the way to the wonderful sunlight. So do you see how beautiful mistakes should be?

Ugly mistakes aren’t bad accidents, huge emotional or physical upheavals in our life, they are the ones we do not truly learn from, the ones we hold on to, the ones we do not allow to make us better, the ones we allow keep us in one spot or even take us back; in reality only we can make our mistakes ugly.

So keep all your mistakes beautiful, because we can all be beautiful people.

Alexander from MANI.