Making mistakes 

This whole thing with Will Smith slapping Chris Rock made me think about how many times we have all done stupid things in our lives.

During my daily phone call with my friend Hassina, we speak about all the times we have screwed up in our lives. Especially since we both faced addiction and have overcome it.

We recalled how many times we fell on our faces. How many times we said or did something that we regretted later on but in that moment you just lost it. You saw red, your brain just got clouded with anger and made you do or say something that was out of character.

We as humans should all be able to relate to what happened to Will. We don’t know what was going on in his life or his head at that moment to set him off. If that was the last nerve that Chris Rock ate on and he’s the one who got the brunt of his hurt and pain.

We must realize that we all make mistakes but we must all own our own shit as well. 

AA teaches us to make amends to the people we hurt, trust me that shit is hard sometimes. But in order to learn and grow we must own our shit, we must apologize to the people we hurt and we must learn to forgive ourselves to move on.

We are all human and this “cancel society” has forgotten that. Make a mistake, let’s cancel them, throw them away, ruin their lives. Wtf? Why? We all make mistakes, there is not a damn one of you that can say they haven’t so why crucify others that do? 

Hopefully as we get older we learn and change. I hope I am never judged by the things I did in my teens and twenties. I was a hot mess back then and yes, I’ve hurt many people I loved. But time has taught me lessons and I am now the first one to raise my hand and apologize for something I may have done or said.

Hopefully we all grow, we learn lessons, we change as people for the better, this is what mistakes teach us.

So today my friends remember we are all human so don’t be so fast to throw stones at others. Remember he who has no sin, cast the first stone and trust me when I say, that is none of us. 

Be kind, be compassionate, you have no idea what someone else is going through. We can all snap at any time, over anything, today just wasn’t your time.

Let’s not hate on someone’s misery, let’s not judge someone else’s mistakes because we all make them.

“Be the change you want to see”

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