I have seen lives unfold free of catastrophic or significant mistakes. People who have been lucky enough not to scar their lives with egregious mistakes. Then I have seen people make very significant mistakes that haunt them. Very financially impactful mistakes. And I have seen people make emotional mistakes that they are in psychological scars for the rest of their lives. I am in a category of person who gave trust to a bride that did not deserve it, and who financially destroyed me to resolve her own financial issues and to provide for her children much like a cuckoo bird puts its eggs into the nest of an unwitting victim. The misplacement of the trust and the financial impact of that, are two egregious mistakes that I made in my life but they do not compare to mistakes made while driving, things that we do with our health, and run us a foul of the law. So I guess, in retrospect I think about the derailment of my life at certain points and can be glad that the impact is financial and not lethal. Or that the impact is emotional but not total. Not, unrecoverable. How awesome it is to be surrounded by people who actually love you. That can bandage lots of injuries.
