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Mistakes

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For my senior project, I built an acoustic guitar. I spent almost 30 hours on this project, and finally finished over the weekend. My finished slideshow presentation captures my dedication and the overall process. The only thing it doesn’t capture, though, is the mistakes I made along the way. The stories about my mistakes didn’t make the slideshow because it was already pushing the time limit without them. I still think it’s important to recognize what went wrong and what I learned from it, so I’ll do that in this blog. A huge mistake I made was placing the fretboard up much too high, leaving no space for the nut to be glued on. I had to use an iron to reheat the wood glue and peel off the misapplied fretboard, which completely damaged it. I then had to buy another fretboard and redo the gluing process. Fixing this mistake cost me many hours, and it was horribly mundane. Despite how annoying the process was, it taught me that it’s important to consider future steps, even if you don’t think your current step will affect them. It’s also important to make sure your measurements are perfectly accurate, and taking a few extra minutes to perfect your lines beats spending four hours fixing an avoidable mistake.

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Regrets

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It is very easy to regret things you have done in life. It can be really small things, like answering a question incorrectly in class while shouting it out with full confidence. It can also be really big things that just don’t seem to leave your mind. People say live your life with no regrets, but it’s hard not to. Maybe it’s a way you wish you reacted to a situation differently. Would your life turn out different? Maybe it’s something you shouldn’t of ever shared about yourself, and now people know. I do hope the feeling of regret passes. It’s embarrassing, and if you really regret something, the thought can nag at you all the time. There is acceptance though, too, which helps us as humans move on. It’s difficult but I think it comes with time. We’re ever-changing, and mistakes are alright. It’s about learning, and every struggle we have, I think, shapes us into who we are supposed to be.

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The Past is in the Past

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It’s true. Sometimes, we just have to let go.

Life is a learning process. Learning about our limits, our purpose, our favorite types of candy, our soul mate, our best friends. We have been learning from the very beginning. We absorb the most knowledge in the first five years in our life. We learn how to recognize faces. We learn how to walk. We learn to smile when we are happy and frown when we are not. We learn from experience, from our mistakes.

 

But we also learn about avarice, heartache, anger, prejudice, hatred, poverty, and murder. And through the years and our experiences, these unwanted emotions begin to build, some changing us for the better, others blinding us from the positive things in life.

That is why I love this quote so much.

We must leave the past in the past. I am not saying that we must forget about our past completely. No. That would be unwise at the least; the past is what defines us and makes us individuals. It is our past that helps us learn and grow. But it is equally important to learn to move on, recognize our faults, and realize that tomorrow is different from yesterday and even today.

Leaving the past behind may be the hardest part, but life should not be bogged down by our past but rather influenced and benefitted from it.