Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Mistakes
Dear Darren,
I remember how much you used to complain when we were going hiking. Are you glad I took you hiking anyway? Now you like to hike! It’s always so hard to know when to insist and when to let you make your own choices.
Soon, you will be so old that you will be making all your own choices. Sometimes I wish I was still making all the choices for you because some of your choices worry me. But who knows, maybe my choices wouldn’t be the best choices for you after all. And even if my choices are still better than yours (because I have more experience), you need to learn to make your own choices, even if some of them scare me.
Even if your choices don't turn out as good as you may have hoped, you will learn. And some of your choices may turn out better than either of us would have predicted! So go ahead and go out there and make mistakes. It’s the only way to get anything done.
Love,
Mom
I remember how much you used to complain when we were going hiking. Are you glad I took you hiking anyway? Now you like to hike! It’s always so hard to know when to insist and when to let you make your own choices.
Soon, you will be so old that you will be making all your own choices. Sometimes I wish I was still making all the choices for you because some of your choices worry me. But who knows, maybe my choices wouldn’t be the best choices for you after all. And even if my choices are still better than yours (because I have more experience), you need to learn to make your own choices, even if some of them scare me.
Even if your choices don't turn out as good as you may have hoped, you will learn. And some of your choices may turn out better than either of us would have predicted! So go ahead and go out there and make mistakes. It’s the only way to get anything done.
Love,
Mom
