"Learning Opportunities"

When you realize you have made a mistake, how do you react?  The answer is most telling.  The more upset you are, the greater the gift if you can see it as such.  Mistakes in themselves are not the gift, but they can easily lead to learning.  Do you tense and think, “Oh, I must be perfect!”  Do you worry what others will think?  What do those reactions teach you?  And what of the reaction of others?  Do they not also have much to reveal and teach?  Ah, yes, gifts abound in so-called “mistakes.”  “I cannot believe I made that mistake!” you say, and perhaps now you can believe and will smile at the gift.  Is not all of life a gift?