"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down" --Mary Pickford
How many times have we made choices we wished we had never made? How often do we focus on the mistakes we have made in life? Maybe we hurt someone or did something to cause ourselves pain. Whatever the mistake, there is always a second chance to to make new choices. We can never re-make a choice. Once a choice is made, we are stuck with it and it's consequences. However, we can change the choices we make after that. Meaning, we always have second chances to get things right if we fail to do it the first time around. However, many of us just don't want to risk taking second chances. When we fall, we don't want to get up because we fear we will just fall down again. Andrew M. Greeley wrote "We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking." Falling down does not mean we failed...staying down does. Making poor choices in life only prepares us to make right ones. We learn from everything and anything we do. So, if you have made a poor choice and have fallen down, get up, dust yourself off and move on, a second chance awaits you.
"When you believe anything is possible...doors will open into infinite possibilities."
How many times have we made choices we wished we had never made? How often do we focus on the mistakes we have made in life? Maybe we hurt someone or did something to cause ourselves pain. Whatever the mistake, there is always a second chance to to make new choices. We can never re-make a choice. Once a choice is made, we are stuck with it and it's consequences. However, we can change the choices we make after that. Meaning, we always have second chances to get things right if we fail to do it the first time around. However, many of us just don't want to risk taking second chances. When we fall, we don't want to get up because we fear we will just fall down again. Andrew M. Greeley wrote "We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking." Falling down does not mean we failed...staying down does. Making poor choices in life only prepares us to make right ones. We learn from everything and anything we do. So, if you have made a poor choice and have fallen down, get up, dust yourself off and move on, a second chance awaits you.
"When you believe anything is possible...doors will open into infinite possibilities."
- Michael Merritt
I always take chances. I think that is what gets me into trouble. Too many times that leap of faith causes me to land in a pile of dung.
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