The thorns of the Olive branch
- Mar 13
- 6 min read
Everyone makes mistakes. We recognise them on a bit of a sliding scale of real-time. Often they are seen immediately as glaring errors of judgement, sometimes only after months or years of emotional, financial or physical investment, give way to a proportionate sense of "Ooops".. and of course, an important learning and growing opportunity.
A mistake is something we generally only recognise after the fact. It's often accompanied by a "wake-up" moment - both literally and figuratively. Mistakes usually occur when we act with incomplete information, when we horribly misjudge a person / misread a situation - or maybe when we simply do the best we can with what we know at the time and the outcome turns out very differently than we hoped. It makes us cringe inwardly on the same sliding scale - a little or a lot.
