Oh! Such a Big Mistake!

Correction as a profession is a bad deal. Imagine always having to correct people. No one likes being corrected. In our minds we are always right. Everything we do is correct.

So when someone sets out to correct all these correct people they are bound to question the correctness of the person correcting them. Which also means that the person correcting them cannot be incorrect, because if the corrector is incorrect then her/his corrections will not always be considered correct.

If you are bored of this blog post already, then try counting the the number of 'corrects' in the last two paragraphs. You don't have to tell me the answer, keep it in your head.

It is inhuman not to mistakes. Perfection is not a human trait. It is best left to vampires. Even God or whoever it is that makes things function is not perfect. If they were, they would not have let evolution progress beyond apes. Guess that entity had a laboratory mis-adventure and there came human beings. Now imagine if that entity had done everything correctly. Humans would never have happened.

Mistakes are nice. Some can be terrible but as long as you can look back at them and laugh, they are tolerable. There are some which might make you cringe in embarrassment and some which you hope know one knows about.

Mistakes make for interesting story. Things become exciting when you goof-up, when you go outside the circuit and do something wrong. You do something least expected. You make a mistake. At that point it kills you but then later you have a something to remember. Mistakes can actually make you famous!

What else, let's see... Are mistakes unique? Well if we classify them, then there are some which are stereotypical, like dating the wrong girl/guy, ordering bad food, buying something wrong, stepping on a banana peal, crashing a car. Most of these are made over and over again. Making them a habit might not be a good idea, but one should commit at least all of these once.

Then there are the unique ones, which only you can make. Perhaps no one wants the unique ones to be shared. If they come out in the open, they won't be unique anymore.

Some mistakes however can kill you. Those also make for interesting stories, but the person who made them can never narrate that story. It's always another person's version and it's not always true.

As I write this, I am trying to make a mental note of all the mistakes am yet to make. The list is quite long and am scared my brain might not be able to hold on to it for too long. The cops will have me on their wanted list soon. I am all set to make a lot of mistakes. You'll know. I will be famous soon.