Sharing the love

So this wouldn't be much of a project if I focused only on my own shortcomings in the perfection department. Also, I mostly want to talk about other people for a bit to make myself feel better. But I will justify this by pointing out that the idea behind this blog is to write about a shared human experience, so it totally makes sense for me to list the mistakes made by others, right?!?

Ok so with that out of the way, I will recount a couple of conversations from the last few days. The first came about when I called a friend for moral support after feeling bad about miscalculating that deadline last week. It went something like this:

• Me: I can't believe I did that... I mean seriously, what was I thinking?
• Her: Well if it helps, I filed documents today that I realized later weren't signed...
• Me: Go us!

Later the same day, another friend posted a status update that she had arrived at the airport in London, UK to board her flight home to the US only to discover that she was actually booked to fly the day before.

If I had any degree of blogger-savvy-ness, I would insert an amusing photo or gif here that depicted someone slapping their forhead in frustration. But I don't. So I will continue typing.

I started off this post wanting to write about friends' incidents of human error because I haven't actually had any crises in the last few days. This led to, however, my first significant realization of this blog (and it's only post #3! hoorah!): when I stop to think about it, I don't actually screw up all the time; just sometimes! It's actually a very refreshing revelation.

I know, I know, this isn't rocket science. Of course I don't screw up all the time, but you know how it is, right? When you've just committed that unforgivable act of human error, it can feel like you're nothing but a screw-up. Ok I should correct that.. I can feel like I'm nothing but a screw-up. I will try not to speak for others but I think the sentiment is somewhat shared.

The point is that I have now decided I will try and chronicle my small successes in addition to my failures. Maybe they will remind me to keep some perspective.