Everyone Makes Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. There is not one person on this earth that has never made a mistake in their lifetime. People make mistakes all the time but in order to learn from these mistakes, the individual needs to make their own and not learn from others unless the mistake is huge with a lasting impression.

There are big mistakes and small mistakes. Sometimes depending on the person, they can learn from a little mistake they made. For example, you accidentally leave your sun roof and windows open overnight in your car and it rains making the inside of your car soaking wet. After making that mistake you will never leave your windows down overnight again. Also, it is hard to learn from other people's big mistakes because people have the "it will never happen to me" mindset. For example, in my personal experience I used to think nothing was going to happen to me if I went a little over the speed limit, well I was wrong. I went over the speed limit a little bit one night, because I was past my curfew, and made a sharp turn onto another street not knowing there was black ice. My car slid into the curb at such an angle that I snapped my tire off on the front passenger side. Let’s just say $2,100 later I learned to be a much more cautious driver. If I told my experience about speeding to someone else that speeds they would probably not learn from it because it didn't happen to them.

There are special occasions where such an outrageous mistake can cause others who did not experience it to learn from it. For example, there was a video online of a famous athlete jumping over a smart car. This video was made to look like the athlete was jumping over the car but in reality he made the illusion that he was actually doing it. He was closer to the camera and jumping while the car drives by in the background making it look like he jumped the car but he didn't, he only timed his jump to look like he did. Well this caused some youth to think this was real and they wanted to try it. One boy tried to actually jump a moving car while his friend videotaped it. This ended up with the friend catching this boy’s jump to his death on tape. It was such a tragic event that it made it on the news. There were multiple mistakes that happened here. The athlete should have specified that it was all an illusion and this should not be attempted in real life. The other mistake was made by the boy who wanted to try this stunt without thinking of what the consequences would be. Hopefully from these few mistakes people will learn from this lasting impression without going out and experiencing it.