Hey guys, I know I come to post on my blog once In a while,
but I am sure that you understand and possibly look forward to it...;)
Today, I
plan to write a short article about another part of ‘Brida’, one of Paulo
Coelho’s novel which I had read recently. While I was reading the novel, which
was almost two months back, as I reached this part, after reading a couple of
lines, I knew that this had to go down in my blog. I really enjoyed this
passage as it deals with something simple, and gives you an all new perspective
about it. It talks about ‘Mistakes’.
We as
humans all make mistakes. As goes the English proverb, ‘To err is human, to
forgive is divine.’ I am sorry, I am a little mixed up, perhaps that proverb is
not the same as I quoted, but it definitely carries the same essence. Inevitably,
we all make mistakes, they may be as simple as forgetting a pen while going to
work, or huge like forgetting the train tickets when on the way to the railway
station. Some mistakes go unnoticed and do not cause problems, while others can
cause huge disturbances in personal and public life. So mistakes are something
which everyone is afraid to make. If any of my readers out there are working,
they would realize the weight of the fact, how much harm can mistakes cause in
one’s work place; because there everything you do or say matters. And to top it
all, nobody ever forgets your mistakes. Good deeds are soon forgotten, but mistakes
stick around for a long-long time.
So when
I came across this passage in the book about mistakes, and that too stressing
the ‘importance’ of mistakes, I penned it down, to put it up here for my
readers. So here it goes for all those guys who have not yet read ‘Brida’
[SPOILER ALERT]:
This part is when Brida (the main character of the story,
for more details, read my last article) in the story completes her initiation
as a witch and has a vision about the Teacher of ‘Wicca’ (Wicca was Brida’s
teacher). The teacher says that you are lucky for you have realised your gift,
most of the people on this earth do not realise their gifts and thus fail to
fulfil the purpose of their births. Hearing this, Brida feels that she now has
a huge responsibility of fulfilling her life’s goal, worried that she would not
be able to life her life as simply like she used to, she says:
“ I have
a life ahead of me, I want to live that life like anyone else. I want to be
close to people, I want to be able to
make mistakes, to be selfish, to have faults.’
The teacher replies: “ You can only be close to people if
you are one of them. Life is about making mistakes, Cells went on reproducing
in the same way for millions of years, until one of them made a mistake, and introduced
change into that endless cycle of repetition. It was a mistake that set the
world in motion, never be afraid of making a mistake.”
“But
adam and Eve were driven out of paradise because of a mistake.”
“And
they will return one day knowing the miracles of the heavens and all of the
world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would have never
mentioned it.”
“So why
did he then?”
“In
order to set the world into motion.”
...
The story goes on, but this is the part I wished to share
with you. The logic and thinking that Paulo has applied to the event of making
a mistake, citing the examples of mutations in cells and the beginning of the
world due to the Tree of Knowledge In the Bible, make you really wonder about the
importance and effects of mistakes. The story of Adam and Eve eating the apple
from the Tree of Knowledge is so different in the Bible. The Bible states in a
very aggressive manner that they were banished from Paradise due to not obeying
the words of God. But Paulo has given it an entirely new meaning and reason,
which I must say s quite convincing and makes you wonder.
And the examples are so not
limited to these, most of the discoveries in the world were by mistake. Take X
rays for that matter, heck, take America for that matter. Columbus discovered
America by mistake, while on a quest to search a route to India-I know you
already know the story, but just wished to write a line. So this point that
Paulo has made in this chapter of his book, really touched me and made me
wonder. We think so much about trying to avoid mistakes, worry our wits out,
and yet the greatest things on the planet are mistakes.
So guys, don’t worry about making mistakes, that is how you
learn. ‘Its not winning if you know how to run, it is winning, if you know how
to stand up every time you fall.’
I hope me writing this article was not a mistake and you
guys would show your agreement by liking it in the check box below... ;-)
