r/Premiummotivation

We all make mistakes. That much is clear. We don't want to make them, but somehow they manage to crawl into our lives. The worst part is...they are all our children. We made them, by accident or by precarious calculations. Doesn't matter how much we try to predict the outcome of our actions or calculations; the future is uncertain, and we never know what the result will be in the end.

We will never stop making mistakes. We wish we would stop, but we never do. We swear we will never make such a mistake again. Yet, we agained. But why? Why can't we get rid of them? It's partly because what we see as a mistake might be something a cosmic being sees as the biggest blessing. I recommed to look at the famous Chinese farmer story. It's my favourite one in this regard, where it says that we can never know the absolute outcomes of our actions, whether they are good or bad. But that mindset doesn't help very much when we torture ourselves with never-ending thoughts of our shortcomings and failures.

I have no idea how to get rid of the bad feeling after making a mistake. Try everything that TikTok, YouTube or any self-help books say, but from my experience, our consciousness will torture us either way. And maybe that's the whole point. We shouldn't feel good. We shouldn't be Stoic about it. We should feel the moral weight of our failure. We are reminded to be better. We should try harder next time because we will die either way. Might as well be the best version of ourselves.