Many times we think of mistakes as always being negative. But maybe we need to think of them as opportunities. In my opinion it is only through mistakes do we learn how to become people. It’s also through these mistakes that we figure out what we like and don’t like. We learn how to read people and to better protect ourselves.

One of the biggest mistakes that I made, changed everything about who I was, but it also helped mold me into the man that I would up becoming today. I made the mistake of trusting someone before I got to know who they really were. I made the mistake of overriding my instinctual feelings that something was wrong, because I wanted to get away from a situation.

I learned the hard way why I should always listen to my instincts when it comes to people. Primarily, because my instincts aren’t wrong. I have a scary good judgment of character and I can smell trouble from a mile  away. The mistake that I was not following that intuition and I paid dearly for it. I went through things that I had never thought I would go through.

From the constant arguing to the embarrassing weekly fights that led to many rough nights. I have to always remember that the mistake I made put me in this position. I have to realize that that make also paved the way for me to figure out a lot more about myself. I learned how to overcome extreme situations. I learned how to have an even stronger backbone without feeling bad. learned how to overcome a small mistake by correcting it before it blow up.

Mistakes have the power to grow up an individual and boy did this mistake grow me up. It made me realize that in this world, once you get out on your own you have to protect yourself because there will certainly be no one else who will do it the way you can for yourself. This mistake taught me that no matter how well intentioned your friends may be, unless they’re readily accessible you have to be able to do it all yourself.

This mistake taught me that all love ain’t good love. This mistake taught me that even the sweetest person can be extremely dangerous and you can never overlook their behavior as a one off. Mistakes will change you, mistakes can break you, but most of all mistakes will truly grow you, if you allow yourself to learn the lesson from the mistake.