The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 17, 2023

It is said that getting older you better remember the far events than the closest.

sometimes the memory glitch is awfully convenient

What I’ve learned from my mistakes is how to make new ones.

Sometimes my really bad ones come back to haunt me in the form of “Why ever did I do that?”

That’s the beauty of being older.

Anybody that outright tells you that they can learn from their mistakes, are Shirley mistaken!

He’s learning…

I also have made a wealth of mistakes to learn from. Now if I could only forget them!

pain can be a good reminder, subconsciously pulling you away from it. :]

The Barbra sang it best, “Those too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.”

Life’s tuition.

Learning from one’s mistakes is a myth. If it were true, I would be the smartest person to ever have lived!

Making mistakes gives you experience, for good or ill.

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” C. S. Lewis

Some of my biggest mistakes were opening my mouth!

There’s a lesson for every scar. Their expanding ‘legends’ are salve to the Ego.

I’m with him. With Some of my memories and experiences, l only wish that l could forget. However, I did learn my lessons and do not put myself into situations where l could repeat them. Then again, l am an older man(around your age). If l were 25, l might still repeat them as would Uncle Ted it seems…..

I’m always making mistakes. Some of them, I actually learn from, some not so much.

@#$%^#, that didn’t work….

Uncle Ted is retired and through with school. The dream lives on.

A great choir director and teacher once told me and the rest of the class, that when you make a mistake, just say, “Deny, deny, deny, deny”. He was quite a character.

Forgotten past mistakes are the best kind because you are not going to lose any sleep over them. In Brutus’ case, I am sure his past mistakes represents a potential wealth of lessons to be learned.

First recognize a mistake. Then learn from it. Some lessons are easy – like last night, when there was ice all over outside from sleet that came hard and fast, I did not try to walk down the 2 steps to take my dog out. I used her long lead and let her go alone. Then I threw out salt for the next trip. I have a chair with a fabric seat and back on my porch – it was frozen solid and made a crunchy sound when I pushed on it. This morning I tested the fabric again and could see cracks in the ice so again, I stayed where the porch was dry. Even the grass was icy – I could see her slipping a little. She’s quite the trooper – I don’t have to worry that she might go in a corner when I am not looking. I am not going to fall on ice if I can help it. I only have two feet to balance with.

Experience is what you get right after you needed it

Probably better that way.

one of the benefits of old age is memory loss. unfortunately, my wife compensates for my memory lapses…

I learned from all my mistakes. Sometimes, it was not to repeat them. Other times, it was how not to get caught.

If we all really learned from our mistakes, we’d be geniuses — or at least better human beings.

Forgot to include this one:

Experience is a teacher,

But here’s what makes me burn:

She’s always teaching me the things

I did not care to learn.