The Importance Of Shortcomings

Many people make mistakes in life, some of them are minor, while some of them change your life forever. Shortcomings are something that one can never run away from. We will all make mistakes and it is up to us to resolve and learn from them. One cannot succumb to all the troubles that they have in their life and expect to be a happier person. Nobody is anywhere near perfect, this means that everyone is bound to make a mistake, do something they may regret, or not fulfill their goal. The most important aspect of making mistakes is learning from them. Morihei Ueshiba once said, “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” She shows us that those who don’t try to improve themselves can never learn from the mistakes they …show more content…
Be confident in yourself, but don’t let your pride determine your success. You need to work for whatever you want to achieve. Someone can motivate himself as much as he wants, but he will never achieve anything if he doesn’t work for it. I made the mistake of being way self-consumed, which led me to not accomplishing one of my dreams. Don’t set the bar so high that you can’t even reach it. My advice is that you work hard, but don’t push yourself to the point where you can’t even handle it. As I said earlier, make friends that will enlighten you. I made the mistake of sticking with people that were continuously taking advantage of my kindness. Not only did they distract me, but till this day, I sometimes regret wasting my time on them. Take this advice, but also remember that it is okay to make mistakes. We are all human, God created us in his image. He knows that we will make mistakes in our lives, and he wants us to learn from them. These are just a few of the shortcomings that I have had in my life, and I have really changed after correcting the mistakes that I made. If you ever mess up, it’s okay, that’s why we have an eraser with our pencils, right? Just like an eraser, clean up your mistake and fix