We all know how easy it is to make a mistake. Luckily, I’m in a profession that is not life or death. Unlike surgeons, my mistakes will probably not change the course of someone’s life. However, I recently felt incredibly ridiculous in my mistakes.
In preparing to advertise for a resource that is available to Teens during the summer I printed off flyers. I was excited. I was ahead of the game. I had this! Yay me! Right? Wrong.
About a week later I was riding in the elevator and realized that the poster in front of me was for July…. not April. Well crap. Ok. Taking that one down!
Back to the computer where I print three copies of the correct one! Got it! I’m gonna just put them both up and be ahead of the game! Yes! I’ve got this. #winning . Right? Wrong.
Two days later I look at the poster in the elevator and realize the date is for June! June! Crap it all! I did the wrong poster AGAIN! Finally backing up I found the one that began in April and printed it out.
But mistakes! I made the same mistake multiple times! I made mistakes while trying to fix my mistake! Argh! But we are so hard on ourselves.
I demand perfection of myself. I am my own worst critic. You look at me and see my flaws, but you have no idea the magnitude of the flaws I see in myself. What you see as a little flaw, I probably beat myself up for on a weekly basis. But grace is required. Required of you, required of me, required of all. No one will be perfect. Ever. Remember that you matter and your mistakes matter. Learn from them and move forward. Have grace for yourselves and others. Share your mistakes and laugh together at them. It’s okay to laugh at me. That’s why I told you this story. Laugh. Enjoy. Move Forward. Go spread some grace.
Keep Sparkling
-B.
The Sparkling Librarian 