I find it interesting that although
we are all part of this human experience, we find mistakes humiliating.
My daughter has had this tag line as her email signature for years now: “I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.” - Thomas Alva Edison I love her for this. And while I accept this as truth, I still find ways to be hard on myself.
There is that fire burning for everything to come together quickly and perfectly as evidence to my own perfection. When will I give that up? I certainly hold no one else to that standard. As I sit here, I can smile and say “soon”.
Mistakes mean living, learning, curiosity for something new…
Finding out that Steve Jobs died and then listening to the speech he made six years ago at Stanford, a lot of thoughts run through my mind. I wonder how many students there that day actually took his advice or even understood what he was actually saying?
We cannot walk in someone else’s shoes. We can only consider as if.
Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy
My daughter has had this tag line as her email signature for years now: “I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.” - Thomas Alva Edison I love her for this. And while I accept this as truth, I still find ways to be hard on myself.
There is that fire burning for everything to come together quickly and perfectly as evidence to my own perfection. When will I give that up? I certainly hold no one else to that standard. As I sit here, I can smile and say “soon”.
Mistakes mean living, learning, curiosity for something new…
Finding out that Steve Jobs died and then listening to the speech he made six years ago at Stanford, a lot of thoughts run through my mind. I wonder how many students there that day actually took his advice or even understood what he was actually saying?
We cannot walk in someone else’s shoes. We can only consider as if.
I have thought of dying a lot. Not morbidly.
I have no desire to die. I have no desire to cheat death either… but I do
have an honest desire to live to 473 years on this earth. People laugh at me when I say that, but
genetically speaking, there is no reason why I shouldn’t.
If I die sooner, I’ve allowed
myself to be talked into something. If I
die sooner, you can know that I have no real regrets. I have been following my curiosity and my
intuition… and with that, my heart.
I have certainly found more than
10,000 ways that did not work, but the ones that do have more than made
up. My children are my crowning jewels…
with the millions of mistakes I have made raising them and the zillions of
mistakes they will hopefully make in their life… nothing to me could be more
perfect... and perhaps with that I have just found my perfection.
I have been on a mission to find a better way. Thank you for the company...Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy
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