How can I not make mistakes?

Philippines
January 31, 2007 7:03pm CST
I hate it, I hate myself. I guess I am not perfect, for all we know nobody is perfect. In some way or another we make mistakes. If I could just delete or edit some of my discussions here, I don't know I just want to. Do you feel embarassed when your grammar, spelling, and punctuation marks is incorrect and yet you cannot do anything about it because you already submitted the response. And so that's it, "first impressions last". The person who might read your discussion or your post might think you're an....
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@carmella (496)
• United States
1 Feb 07
Please don't get down on yourself. I know how you feel as I feel the same, I wish I could edit some of my post especially when I accidently hit the post instead of preview button and see I have typos all through it. I just hope that others can see they are typos, and that we all make mistakes, and that no one is perfect.
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@sunshinecup (7871)
1 Feb 07
Yes I really wish we could edit our posts. This would be so nice.
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@jricbt (1454)
• Brazil
1 Feb 07
Welcome to humanity. We all make mistakes (imagine me, I am not even a native english speaker). We make mistakes, we feel shame for it. It is natural, we all are like this. So, why care? (talking about the mistakes in mylot, only).
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@cassidy22 (2974)
• United States
1 Feb 07
Everyone makes mistakes. Don't beat yourself up over it. Mistakes are how we learn, grow and become better people
@unisis (1673)
• Indonesia
1 Feb 07
yes i agree with you that nobody is perfect,we are as the human being will not do mistake everytime and also will not do right everytime,if you do not want to do mistake so you need to read once or twice before you submit your response.
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
I cannot afford to read my discussion or response that much because I don't have a good eyesight. I don't usually wear my eyeglasses.
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@xiongqh (791)
• Hong Kong
1 Feb 07
Don't waoory about that, everyone have made mistake in certain time. People always think himself is not perfect, but we should know the others is the same with us. I also make some mistake, but I can learn from it, I would not to make the same mistake after that, it is good enough. So if you can take the mistake down and learn from it, just take it easy, don't waoory about it.
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• India
1 Feb 07
Language is mode that takes one to the other side. While it is just enough if the message is conveyed, displine is a good factor to imbibe. Before posting finally, 'preview post/comment' can be taken into account. Above all, concentrated effort will fetch the desired result. Mistakes do teach us some thing. One should be careful not to repeat the same mistake. EACH mistake does TEACH us greatly. -va-
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• Philippines
1 Feb 07
I think i know what your thinking..i corrected your mistaking sidney as a she right?but dont worry about it..i remember i was reading his books for a few years already and then after 5 yrs i found out that sidney is a man.hahha..but anyway yeah how come mylot doesnt have that edit option?sometimes my grammar is wrong or sometimes we type real fast and when we submit it,thats when we found out that we did some errors in our post.
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• Philippines
1 Feb 07
Yeah because I read the books but I don't bother whether the author is a he/she. I just fell in love with the story and not with the profile of the author.
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• Philippines
1 Feb 07
yeah thats what happened to me..oh when u read my earlier post here in your discussion i said sidney and danielle steel are my favorite authors right?..you know what now i remember,i thought sidney was a she and danielle was a he..hahahha
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• India
1 Feb 07
Even i to feel the same ..if at all we have some thing revind so that we could edit our discussions..
@kerbausama (1335)
• Malaysia
1 Feb 07
everybody not perfect..i dont care about grammar or whatever as long as they understand and you can help...thats ok.. ...
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@vivek6831 (211)
• India
1 Feb 07
hey ! come on yaar in life nobody is perfect you have to become perfect in your life so that everyboody gets proud on your selves you should learn a lesson from your life of getting better and better
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• India
1 Feb 07
see, mistakes that tend to happen by mistake should not be considered as mistakes. They are just accidents. I too tend to do mistakes here like you ar others. There are so many of others who can not aviod it. Main motto should be to express yourself in such a way so that it should be understood, accepted globally. that's it. I just go throght once what ever i write here and correct as much as mistakes i find. But still sometimes i fail to correct 100%. So i too feel bad about it. Feels ok when i think that being a perfectionist is a costly job!
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@patrice7 (1191)
• United States
1 Feb 07
please do not hate yourself or take it against yourself if you have done mistakes.. its natural and it is normal. you are not perfect, you are not a God. hey whats nice about being human is being able to commit mistakes!. its ok to be embarassed with the grammar and spelling and punctuation but dont let it bother you for a long time.. see these are just typographical errors which all of us commit!. and all of us dont really have perfect grammar!. well i know that im not so good at it but as long as i can deliver my point and i have no evil intentions then i wont be embarassed at all. because mistakes are errors that have been done i think that one should learn from it and never do it again.. first impressions last only for those people who wont be dealing with you again and those people dont matter anyway.. for friends however the quote "first impressions last" doesnt apply because they know who you really are..
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1 Feb 07
We learn by our mistakes, do not be so hard on yourself. :D VIRTUAL HUGS. Did you know you learn more and remember more by doing something incorrectly, than correctly. My grammar is poor, but my spelling is okay. Punctuation is fairly easy. "If it makes sense, then its a sentence so it gets a full stop" Then of course you have the comma, which you use in a list of things. Today I bought a packet of soup, a tin of beans, a roll of foil, a bag of buns, a frozen chicken and a pink cat! so at the end of the list where the and a pink cat! there is no comma. Sentences begin with a capital letter always. Hey your doing fine now stop beating yourself up.
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@mayamaya (41)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
the person who responds to your posts and sees past your errors is the person worthy of a plus. the person who appreciates your responses and minds not your errors is the person worthy of your time. i think myLot is a very wonderful opportunity to express ourselves. let's not worry about our mistakes and enjoy! after all, life is about making mistakes and finding humor in them.
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@Demonix (294)
• Canada
1 Feb 07
its normal to have erors occationaly, as far as I can tell nobody is perfect, the important part is that it can be read, I ofte have more errors than I would like but thats due to several aspects, including spelling and grammar issues as well as my cordless keyboard, sometimes the signal does not feed correctly to my computer, I dont really get embarrased over it, to err is human
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@valmiki9 (1171)
• India
1 Feb 07
if your language is naturally good and you are a good typist youwill make less mistakes .Otherewise there will be more mistakes but the question is where do you have the time to be meticulous
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• Philippines
1 Feb 07
think you as a what? i admit i get that kind of impressions with people online...but, now, don't fret. its ok. i myself am not perfect in grammars and spellings, but then, we here are just communicating with each other and in informal manner. i mean were here to be members of a community who share and discuss things that are not kind of professional stuffs... so it's ok. i think the quality of the discussions and comments you post are the most important in basing impressions.
@onesiobhan (1327)
• Canada
1 Feb 07
It is impossible to never make mistakes. What is far more important is to learn from your mistakes and use the experience to do better in the future. As a wise man once said, "If you have never done anything wrong, you have never done anything."
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• Philippines
1 Feb 07
Nobody's perfect, give yourself a break. I myself commits mistakes lots of times but no big deal for me. We just have to be careful next time
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@mindz_me (179)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
We do not intend to make it wrong spelling or wrong grammar. I think we are here to learn something new from others and not to judge to the spelling or grammar other people's posts. I am happy being here because it can help me improve my English more. As what you have said "Nobody is perfect" so do not worry about it. =)
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@katweena (84)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
Everybody makes mistakes, anyone who laughts at you or calls you names is a hypocrite. Don't let those petty things bug you. There's no way you can stop making mistakes. I mean, we were programmed by God to make mistakes because we're not gods.
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