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How do you make peace with a mistake you made? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by randomTingler@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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We all make mistakes knowingly or unknowingly. But a few mistakes that I made in the past still haunt me. How do I overcome those?

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[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Shit happens, I've made plenty of mistakes and still do make lots of mistakes and I will keep making lots of mistakes. The goal is to learn from them so as to not repeat them, instead of letting them haunt you for eternity...

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago

I keep telling myself and reminding others of that but still don't believe it myself.

Though I feel like that's mostly just being concerned about mistakes I've made with others that they likely don't even remember.

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Then you should just accept them, there is no going back, whatever happened, happened, and you grew as a person as a result of said mistakes. As I said, no use to overthink it...

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

It's more about whether I should go back and try to make an amends or if that would just come off as weird

[-] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Sure there's no use in it, but it's not just a switch everyone can turn off.

It takes practice, and the best way to practice that I've found is regular mindfulness meditation.

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