"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
- Elbert Hubbard
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I did not understand how I was raised in fear based thinking until I was in counseling. Recently, I read an article about how education in the last 40 years changed from threatening children with a dunce cap, an 'F', or swats to encouraging children to grow through cooperation, encouragement, and enhancing strengths. I was raised more than 40 years ago. Every mistake was pointed out as evidence of my stupidity and one of the names I was called was Ding-a-ling. Often I was lectured with the beginning statement, "What can we do so that you never make this mistake again?" Any errors needed to be eradicated in an effort to 'make me' a better person. The possibility that I was a good kid to begin with was simply not considered.
I recognized somewhere along the line that type of thinking was counter productive. I just didn't know anything else. My photography helped me express my idea that imperfect is beautiful, I called it 'Imperfect beauty.' Nature glories in imperfections yet people try to get the Perfect Picture without flaws. I admire them but decided that imperfection has a beauty all its own.
2 comments:
When I taught preteens and teens, I used to tell them, "A mistake is only a mistake if you don't correct it, learn from it, and move on."
Instead of deducting marks, I gave them the option of correcting their work and resubmitting it. Some couldn't be bothered, or said it wasn't fair. Others saw it as a golden opportunity and thanked me.
mulderfan, I like your definition of a mistake. Thanks.
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