Bah! Opportunities for growth.

No, really. I decided that the universe is a crazy place and there is no way that I will be able to account for every possible outcome of everything I do and I'm not going to sit in my room my whole life, afraid to make mistakes*. I've spent too much of my life wishing for a Rewind button as it is.

As of last year, when I made this decision, the sole criteria for classifying one of my actions as a mistake is my motivation, otherwise it's just an action with an "unfortunate outcome." Of course I can still learn from these unfortunate outcomes, it's just that the days of hating myself and wishing to take that action back are behind me. This means that I have to take my motivation self-checking more seriously now... but I think I'm up to the task.

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* I am defining a mistake as some action for which I would otherwise "hate" myself for.