Are you free to make mistakes?

I have had people in my life that tried to guide me and help me to make the right decisions (or at least what they believed were the right decisions). I have always been free to do as they said or make my own determination and go against what they advised me to do, even when I was younger and still with my parents - of course they wanted me to abide by their rules, but they could not make me if I did not choose to obey, although I knew that I would be punished if I disobeyed. However, I have also had to accept the consequences of my choices (both good and bad), since nobody else can live my life for me.

Ever since I was based away from my family because of work, I was compelled to make my own decisions and live independently. I had huge struggles at first, considering that for the most part of my life was spent with my family and great friends. Living away from my comfort zone enabled me to be tough when dealing with situations. Among the few, "homesickness" was my main struggle. But I was grateful for the opportunity because it had shaped my character.

I think everyone makes mistakes but we all learn from them. Even if you have people to give you advice and stop you from doing what they think you shouldn't do doesn't always mean that they are giving you the right advice and you could still make mistakes. Some people make worse mistakes than other people do but I think we all learn from them.

Have I done big mistakes already?It all depends on who you ask. If you think a woman Must get married and have children, then I'm a complete failure. If you think Every good student Must go to college then I'm a complete and utter failure.So The answer is yes, I have been free to make my own mistakes. But the thing is I don't se them as mistakes. I see them as my choices.And besides No one can make me do anything huge I don't want to. That is why For decades I always thought If they push me into whatever I can always die , disappear. Now, Everything is up to me. My parents are gone and my sister is supportive so Whatever I want to do , I can at least try to do.

Hi bounce. :) I consider myself as one of those free to make mistakes. Both my parents trusted me at such an early age and allowed me to make decisions. They trust my judgment. They're consistently proud of my achievements. Whenever I make mistakes, they trust that my mistakes would make me a stronger person. They know that my mistakes would not ruin me, but would make me a better person. :)I have made mistakes in the past, but such mistakes are not huge enough for my parents to lose their trust in me. :)

I think the only qualified mistakes that I made are wrong answers in exams LOL. I would say I made choices. Everyday, we are faced with options that would change the course of our lives for better or worse and hopefully learn something from it. You CHOSE to listen to your parents. You CHOSE to listen to your friends. You CHOSE to let others take care of you. If you think you are not free to make your own "mistakes" then that is your CHOICE. We are not robots. We have free will.

Well there's a good and bad to both sides. I was a bit of a wild child.. and definitely a wild teen.. but my early teen years were extremely sheltered. I wasn't allowed certain friends who could potentially be bad influences. So.. eventually I rebelled so that I could live the life I wanted.. at this point I moved away from home and was free to make whatever mistakes I wanted. Unfortunately I made a few too many.. most of which I regret today. Could things have been different if people had treated me differently? I don't know. I think those mistakes that I made were just in my nature at the time.. it was something I had to do to get out of my system I guess. I think had I not left home I just would have made those mistakes later in life and wouldn't be where I am now. I don't think there's any way possible that I could have just been content following the straight and narrow like everyone wanted me to. Unless I miraculously go back to that point of my life with the knowledge I have today.

I had a sheltered childhood but from I went to college then I have been free to make mistakes. However, I did think through what the outcome could be before I carried out a decision. Would it be worth it? What do I want the end result to be? I taught my children to think of the consequences before they made a decision. And do not make decisions to deliberately hurt other people. In my book that is a no no

I have been very free to make mistakes..lol. I have been witout family since my teens and I learned alot of stuff they hard way. I think I was pretty sheltered until my granparents passed, but after that it was straight out into the world with no one to call if I was in a mess. I think that there have been people and situations "sent" to me..if that makes sense...to keep me kind of on track..but there have also been times when I had to pick my face up out of the mud, brush my knees off and try it again..lol. I am very open minded because of my life. I am also alot tougher than I look. I'm not sure if I would be the same person I am now if things weren't the way they were for me. I am pretty different from where I came from..lol. Maybe that was the point of my troubles though. Great discussion!

Humans learn from mistake, it is the mother of all success. Go ahead and make mistake, just do not get hurt.

Hi bounce, No I am not free to make mistakes, but I feel people are free to accept them and or reject my mistakes. See it is the only way one can recover and correct our mistakes if we knew that are not acceptable. Free at times is not really a great thing as what comes to mind when a person freely accepts mistakes is that they will enable the mistake making person. Therefore, no you should not stop complaining.

I think we are born free. But we still have a choice if we want to exercise that freedom to do what is right or wrong. Like you, I had a very sheltered life too. My parents are there to remind me every now and then what is good and what is bad for me. I chose to follow them as I know they are only concerned about my welfare. Even if they are there for me and protected me, I still stumbled on some mistakes in my life like trusting a man who would just fool me. But I am thankful about my mistakes because I learn from it and become a better person. For me it is okay to make mistakes because we learn from it. It is human nature to make mistakes. But what is important is keeping right what we did wrong and emerging from it as a better person.

Mistakes can be small or large. Can be divided into categories forgiven the unforgivable, but they are custom categories and standards vary depending on each person. But I notice one similarity, that any man who decides to fit your mistake "to forgive", you specify with certainty that in another place you would be classified as "unforgivable", but no one decides not to forgive you, not someone else can state that you would forgive. Strange ... so as a result, almost all mistakes are unforgivable ... Now we come to the sad part. What do you wrong and no one forgives you? Great philosophers have admitted that "to err is human," but none of these smart people, did not specify what to do after a commit "humanly". Wrong to the man and all other people around you who were close before the error, decide not to forgive. Attempt to fix the mistake, but the attempt is in vain, for something done once, did remain. It's not as if you painted the wrong shade of a wall and then give another layer to the right, and everything is fine. In this case, you do not paint any color change obtained after mistake. Stay single, think, realize the thousandth time, yes, even you wrong, regret, sadness, miss them all, then wondering how rebels you all the best made, gathered, are overshadowed by one gesture? Then silence ... I forgive you, but forgive them, those who you have disappointed those looking for the mercy of the acre, while they wait to make a mistake. You'll get to an end eventually, you meet new people, you take care not to wrong, but everything will be different this time. The bitter taste of last friends shattered with big words and ethics, taste superiority to others in your moments of weakness, taste remains, and every potential new friend's face look with fear and last enemy. Sandstone know people better ... and yet is so wrong to wrong!

You need to make mistakes in life its the best way to learn because when we make a mistake we learn from that and we try to avoid that mistake in the future. It is the best learning tool out there.

All people have been ever done a mistaking. it's not wrong. but we ought to learn from it. so that not happen again.