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Time is linear, which basically means time goes on and we can never go back to a particular point of time in the past. History never returns and so does opportunity, once it’s forgone.

Unconsciously we often think that when we make a mistake (or fail) today, we’ll have similar opportunities to make amends tomorrow.

And with this kind of mindset, somehow we (unfortunately) tend to be less mindful of our words and actions today.

None of us are perfect beings. We make mistakes. In parenting our kids, at work, in building our relationships with our spouse, friends and families.

But I guess what’s more important is for us to not use the ‘we all make mistakes’ phrase as our ‘excuse’ when we actually make mistakes.

Because when we do, we unconsciously are ‘justifying’ our own errors and somewhat ‘minimising’ the weight of the mistake itself. And when we acknowledge our mistakes less, we somehow learn from our mistakes less too.

Personally I feel, when we make mistakes today, it doesn’t mean we’ve come to a dead end. We should carefully ‘review’ what’s happened though, introspect and continually remind ourselves to not do similar mistakes in the future.

Time is irreversible.

And since whatever mistakes we’ve done earlier are not reversible as well, let’s learn to watch what we say, do and think. All the time.