Embrace Your Mistakes

So, here’s a little story for you- The other week my friend Audrey was having our friends over to her house. She lives about 25 minutes away, which is saying something because most of us live in a range of 5-15 minutes apart being that we all went to the same high school. I showered, got my stuff together, put her address in my GPS and went on my merry way. Once I finally pulled up to her house I was a little wary if I was at the right place. I didn’t see any other cars, so there was the possibility that I was the first one there even though she had told anyone they could come over about an hour before that. I turned my car around to check the other street since she lives out in the woods, thinking that maybe people had parked in a different spot. Seeing no one, I went back and parked at the end of her driveway. Someone was backing out, who it turned out to be her sister. After recognizing who I was, I explained to her that I was probably just the first one here and I’d never been to their house, blah, blah, blah. Then, she let me inside where I could wait till Audrey got home as she was at the grocery store. I had just texted her that her sister let me in so I didn’t scare her and settled onto the couch to watch Netflix. She replied to my text “Omg I meant for tomorrow not today haha.”

I was mortified! Here I was just sitting in somebody’s house before they got home the day before she was actually having people over!! My heart started pounding and I was getting flustered cause I had messed up. Once I made sure it was okay to briefly leave her door unlocked I left and went home. I quickly realized I needed to accept this and make the best of it and move on before I drowned in embarrassment. I decided to enjoy the drive home with my music blasting and the windows down. The next day, I even brought it up myself and joked about really wanting to get the party started.

Sitting in the "drinking hole"

I’m usually a very self-conscious person. Reflecting back on the situation, I probably would have cried or come up with a cover story if it had happened at some other point in my life. I did not want this stupid, little, inconsequential mistake to take me down a road of misery. So here’s my advice for you all: embrace the mistakes you make. They truly are a learning experience. Yes, sometimes they turn out badly, but a lot of the time it’s just that something didn’t go perfectly. Don’t give someone else the power to use that against you. Accept what you did wrong, pretend it was part of the plan all along, and run with it. Things happen and unfortunately, life is often out of our control.

Having fun :)

What you can do is make the most of it.