To change direction (from what was learned) is to turn the mistake into a lesson, and then correct your path/life/direction, and then use the lesson to stop you from going back that way again.
To continue in the direction of the mistake is to change the mistake into a foolish action/habit etc. Because now you know that it foolish to keep repeating a mistake.
Even if we tell ourselves a lie by re-labeling the mistake to something that sounds more suitable, the truth is still the truth and we will still have to live with the results of the mistakes no matter what it is called.
People complain about life and how life is treating them, but if we are honest with ourselves we may find a few foolish choices that we are living with that we choose to look the other way so we can pretend that they don’t exist.
Facing the truth and then making some strong life-changing-choices brings you and I freedom, confidence and stability.
An example is a young girl being talked into going with a guy she has doubts about. Finally she comes to the wise conclusion that he is not for her, but she is afraid to tell family and friends.
Once this young lady knows that this guy is a mistake she needs to turn away from him. But if she is a people-pleaser she will go with the guy (go on with what she knows is a mistake) and she will have to live with the results of that decision.
One way of looking at this is that good things will not come from doing things that we know deep down inside are wrong. We must face the truth and make the right choices for our own life regardless of what others try to push is into.
Courage is doing what you know is the best thing to do even under pressure to do otherwise from others.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
November 10, 2017 at 4:32 AM.
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