If someone tells you “you will make a mistake,” will you stop what you are about to do?
Who says it is a mistake? That person? What is their culture, education, and conditioning? What makes this person tell you that it is a mistake?
A mistake according to whom? God or society? Nature or humans?
Why does this person warn you this way?
Is that person in fear? What is the fear, and why?
Is there a background of jealousy? Maybe that person would also like to do that but is so caught in fear of consequences that he or she will never do it and doesn’t want you to do it for precisely that reason.
Is the advice coming from a good place? Is it like telling a kid not to grab this thing in the fire because his hands will burn? Is it coming from caring for you and your safety?
If the kid puts a hand in the fire, he will remember it directly, much better than if someone tells him.
When the Greeks claimed that the Earth was a sphere while most thought it was flat, what kind of pushback did they get?
If you made the mistake, will you spend your life in guilt and regret because you did? Will you let yourself be sick because of your guilt?
Oh sure, be safe out there; there are rules and laws.
People created wars and, still today, kill their neighbors on behalf of their God, their piece of land, or their country. Maybe you believe it’s a mistake, but these people do not.
What laws permitted them to kill so many humans or destroy nature? How is it acceptable?
A mistake is very relative to who decides it is wrong.
I am only using the case of wars to show how difficult it is to judge right or wrong in an extreme way. I’m not encouraging war and conflict. I believe that we are all one. Compassion, love, and respect for each other is the way to go, and it is often difficult to observe.
I tend to ask myself what nature would do.
If a tree grows weirdly and completely different from other trees in a forest, will nature kill it? Is this tree making a mistake?
No growth or anything important was built without someone doing something new, extravagant, pushing the boundaries, and making many mistakes. Ask any entrepreneur.
There are no mistakes, only experiences that have consequences and are an opportunity to learn, or better, to remember what you already know and forgot.
I constantly make mistakes myself while trying to stay reasonably safe. So far, so good.
Yes and thank you.
The more I get into this, the more I believe that the concepts of "right" and "wrong" are fictions, stories we tell each other, often to make ourselves feel safe.