Learning from Mistakes

     Learning from Mistakes - Day 5

This is day 5 of the challenge - A story a day, keeps the boredom away. Each day I'll try to reach my goal of 500 words a day. Today I'll be writing about my day and about how I learned from my mistakes and how you can too.

Today, I've made a few mistakes and I've decided to try to learn from those mistakes by adjusting my brain to fix it.

It was a regular day, today in the morning, it actually felt fine and so I felt that today would be a good day. So, I did my regular routine and headed off to school, excited to see what school had in store for me. Every day is a new day and so you never really know what to expect what may happen.

As I arrived at school, the gate gave me some PTSD and it reminded me on what happened yesterday when I fell of my bike, so I instantly got off my bike and walked inside instead of cycling inside. So, I locked my bike and headed off to my line. It was pretty early so we had a bit of free time to do whatever we wanted. We decided to use this time to talk with my friends and my brother.

After that, we got inside the school building and got ready to go to our first lesson. Our first lesson would be science and we would be doing a practical - which is what I found the most fun during science -, we would be getting food - bread for this experiment - and submerging it into solutions and chemicals to extract the starch and sugar from the bread. This would change the colour of our substance, indicating the present of whatever we would be trying to find. So, I paired up with my friend and we got started.

We started off straining the mushed-up bread that we had mushed up in water. The straining process took a bit and it took a while. Till then, we played around and when it was finished. We put the strained liquid in the beaker into two test tubes for us to put chemicals to extract it out. We put Iodine in the first one to extract the starch as that was the easiest, and it's supposed to turn purple, but it turned black, so that was a failure.

Then we put a solution to try to find protein, but we were so dumb because there isn't any protein in bread, so that was also a failure. We learned from this mistake, but we didn't have enough time.

In English - the last lesson of the day -, I also failed my grammar and vocabulary as I'm not very good at grammar and I decided to adapt and change it as the teacher told me, but I didn't have enough time to change it fully, so the teacher said to come to her tomorrow during the lesson.

The lesson here is that, when you make a mistake, it's not a mistake the first time, but if you don't learn from that mistake, that's when you can truly call it a mistake. You need to adapt and change your mindset from the first failure that you did so that the next time you do it, it won't fail but rather succeed. That's where the quote, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. This quote is very powerful, where if you don't learn from what happened before, and it happens again, you should put most of the responsibility on you the second time.

So, when you make a mistake, make sure to adapt and overcome it, because even though you may mess up the first time, that's not called a mistake, it's called learning. 

Thank you for reading.