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People learn from thier mistakes
Many have committed actions that they can either regret or do better. Some say that people can learn from their mistakes. I agree with this statement because many actions that I have done in the past I do not want to do it again. Most of the actions that can be learned are usually mistakes that you want to repeat because you want to be known for the accomplishments that you made. A life story that I can refer to this statement was when the kitchen stove burned my fingers. I had obviously did not know a stove was and what it can do at that time. I could not remember seeing the fire and I had thought fire was fun because of all the cool colors it had and would not do anything at all. The situation had happened because I was in search for food since I smelled it and I was hungry. So I had put three of my fingers and of course had burned them. I have learned that I must wait until my mother serves me when she makes the food and I can not be impatient for anything that I want. Another story that can be related is football practice in school. Practice makes perfect when the big game comes up. So what had happened to someone that I know was that they had messed up during a game play. The consequences for a messed up action like that in football was to run laps until they had gotten it right. The football team must learn what they had done wrong so it would not happen in the real game. Some can say that we humans do not learn from our mistakes. Such evidence that they can back this up is teenagers not doing their homework and wanting have better grades. This can be true but has anyone ever think that they need to step up to the plate to make that decision. We learn from our mistakes because we are willing to know what we had done wrong and then correct it fir later on. We have to do something about it instead Words cannot do the work it is all about the actions that are taken that work in this world.
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