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Snet
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SigmaoctanusIV
United States3313 Posts
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WcOwl
United States8 Posts
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JerKy
Korea (South)3013 Posts
I have similar guilt because when I was a kid, I was careless and my brother got 3rd degree burns all over his body/face Youre a big hero to me | ||
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
On July 10 2012 14:46 SigmaoctanusIV wrote: Amazing, and inspiring. What that Typo in the title intentional? Unintentional. Woops.  | ||
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
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DuB phool
United States1003 Posts
Thank you, and well done. | ||
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McFeser
United States2458 Posts
But your talking about mistakes  It's perfect. Don't admit it was a mistake you'll look like a genius! | ||
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FYRE
New Zealand314 Posts
Inspired me to do things. The paragraph structure in particlar was highly profound. Thank you for opening my eyes. | ||
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r.Evo
Germany14079 Posts
Don't let a stupid thing in the past ruin your appreciation of the present and the future. | ||
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Azera
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States43533 Posts
You're one of the few who has actually become a better person because of your previous flaws. It's never exciting to make mistakes, but it's not a terrible thing if you can turn something bad into an eventual good, finding a silver lining or a just cause sometime later down the road. Well done | ||
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teddyoojo
Germany22369 Posts
On July 10 2012 17:23 r.Evo wrote: I doubt carrying the weight of any and all mistakes you made in your life as some kind of burden that you can never get rid off leads to a happy or fulfilled life. If you managed to learn from mistakes you made are able to not repeat them and, even better, can help others to not make them in the first place you already did more than enough from my point of view. Don't let a stupid thing in the past ruin your appreciation of the present and the future. I agree. I liked your blog until the last 4 lines. You said yourself "humans make mistakes". Dont beat yourself up over those mistakes in the last. Learn from them. Forgot them. I doubt you'll ever drunk drive again in your live. You learned from your mistake. That's more than most people can say about their mistakes. And it's enough. Dont think about your mistakes, dont repeat them. And all is fine | ||
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Boonbag
France3318 Posts
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2715 Posts
As you said everybody makes mistakes, but you cannot beat yourself up about them all your life. The point is to realize them, never repeat them, and avoid similar ones. Nothing good can come out of dwelling on something that is past and gone. One should move on and try to improve. And you have certainly "redeemed" (for lack of better words) yourself long ago. I have utmost contempt for people who recklessly drive drunk with no consideration of how much they endanger others. Because of this I never dared to drive even if I've only had a small glass of beer and even if it means that I have to walk for two hours well beyond midnight to return home. But once I made a similarly stupid thing... I drove a few friends of mine 50 miles to a town in the Netherlands so we could smoke weed. However, i did not have nearly enough time to sober up before having to drive back. My judgement was clouded and so it happened that on the way back I was still somewhat stoned and tired since it was already late. Everything went well until we were only 5 minutes away from home. I turned into a one-way street in the wrong direction... There was no vision to see upcoming traffic. Luckily, I was able to reach the point where I could enter the right lane again without an accident, but that was when I saw a car coming towards me. If I had made the wrong turn 15 seconds later (or a minute later, or 2 min earlier, or pretty much not at exactly one of those lucky moments) I would have probably caused a very serious accident. The next day, I finally realized how irresponsible I have been. I felt like shit for a few weeks but I felt like I have to move on. I'm trying to be a responsible driver in every situation, and I certainly will never again drive when under the influence of any substance... | ||
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Perfi
Poland349 Posts
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
I bow to you and all your EMT buddies. | ||
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sorrowptoss
Canada1431 Posts
The main deal here is that you have trouble forgiving yourself for what you have done, and especially what you might have done if the circumstances were aligned. But here's the thing. It didn't happen. You did not kill anybody, you did not hurt or harm anybody by driving drunk. Yes you might have, but you did not. So now I feel like you are in anger, resentment, or self-deprecating for something that hasn't even happened! You are ruining your mental health for something that you made up! Yes, you were close to doing so, but you didn't. So you should find a way to actually be glad that nothing bad really happened for driving drunk in your case. You are stuck in a world of "if this happened, I could have done this, and then this would have happened". Be happy that you didn't actually kill anybody. Find joy. Life is long. | ||
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goodkarma
United States1067 Posts
On July 10 2012 23:10 sorrowptoss wrote: I honestly think that this kind of anecdote ends up one way or another in a movie. Inspiring and humane. The main deal here is that you have trouble forgiving yourself for what you have done, and especially what you might have done if the circumstances were aligned. But here's the thing. It didn't happen. You did not kill anybody, you did not hurt or harm anybody by driving drunk. Yes you might have, but you did not. So now I feel like you are in anger, resentment, or self-deprecating for something that hasn't even happened! You are ruining your mental health for something that you made up! Yes, you were close to doing so, but you didn't. So you should find a way to actually be glad that nothing bad really happened for driving drunk in your case. You are stuck in a world of "if this happened, I could have done this, and then this would have happened". Be happy that you didn't actually kill anybody. Find joy. Life is long. He is living his life as a way to redeem himself by bringing more order and justice into the world. The same kind of order he could have destructively taken away in a heartbeat had things gone slightly differently. I think you're overreacting a bit when you tell him to find joy, as he is finding joy in redeeming himself in his work. As far as never forgiving one's self I would say, though, to always forgive and never forget. Find what caused you to get to that regrettable action and see to it that you're never in a position to repeat it again. I think that's all that you or anyone for that matter could expect of you. My 2 cents... Great blog post btw 5 stars | ||
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GoSuChicken
Germany1726 Posts
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