Did you ever make a mistake that you felt was so bad you had trouble accepting you had

[Mike 03]

made it, and could not forgive yourself, or had trouble forgiving yourself?

What did you do?

[petronius]

1. Yes. Eventually, I just got over it...

There really wasn't anything to do - I obsessed about it 24/7 for a while, and then gradually less and less. Now, although I remember the fact of feeling really really bad, I can't recover the actual experience...

[VMSMI]

2. Sacrificed myself to the volcano.

[jeff30997]

8. Wow !

And you managed to survive so you could tell us about your experience !

[femmocrat]

3. OMG yes, I've made some whoppers.

I'm still beating myself up about some of them. I just chalk it up to being young and dumb, and try to move on.

I don't do the forgiveness thing very well.

I'm not really an Oprah fan, but I remember her saying, "When you knew better, you did better." That stuck with me. I try to accept that I was wrong and now I can acknowledge it, learn from it, and do better in the future.

[MichiganVote]

4. Human=mistakes=because we're mere mortals=end of story

[Forkboy]

5. Many times, but they're way too deep to go into here.

There are things I'll never forgive myself for, nor should I.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Yes.

[Xipe Totec]

7. I allowed a girl to come to harm

Her only sin was being interested in me.

It was an error of arrogance.

She used to come to visit me in the chemistry lab.

It was obvious that she was interested.

I was not.

I tended to ignore her while she chatted away, trying to engage my attention.

One fine day, she came while I was dissolving a copper sample in aqua regia; a noxious combination of concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acids. The only acid strong enough to dissolve gold.

I had a beaker of this stuff under a watch glass and it was slowly filling with nitrogen dioxide, a bright orange byproduct of the reaction. It is essentially a dehydrated gaseous form of nitric acid, which will combine with any water in the environment and turn back into nitric acid.

She came into the lab and started chatting away, while I went about performing my lab work.

It wasn't long before her attention was drawn to the bright colored gas in the beaker.

- Oh! what is that! - she said.

I rolled my eyes and said, sarcastically - that's what we make perfume from...

Before I could react, she had lifted the watch glass to take a sniff of the noxious fumes.

She began to choke and cough violently, as the acid reformed in her throat and lungs.

I was panic stricken by the sheer stupidity of what I said, and the awful consequences.

I never imagined that she could miss the sarcastic tone in my voice.

I apologized profusely, as she coughed pink spit onto a washcloth.

Fortunately, she did not inhale enough gas to do serious damage; only enough to make her cough violently for an eternity of minutes.





She never came back to visit after that day, and I have carried that guilty memory with me for nearly 40 years.

[crim son]

10. Brave of you to share that.

If she knew you were sorry, she'd forgive you.

[Xipe Totec]

16. I have to answer to a much more severe judge

My conscience.

To remember that words have consequences too.

I cannot undo the harm, but I can try to keep myself from harming somebody with my words again.

Thank you for reading and responding. :hi: :hug:

[jeff30997]

12. OMG !

Thanks for sharing this Xipe Totec.I don't know what to say.Usually I make silly jokes

to make people feel better but nothing appropriate comes to mind.Please stop torturing

yourself. :hug:

[Xipe Totec]

14. I think that memory has helped me be more reflective

to think about the consequences of my words.

I don't mind having the remorse, if it helps me be a better person.

[crim son]

9. Yes.

I don't think I will ever completely forgive myself, and I'm not going to confess here.

[NNadir]

11. About 1998 I met this old creepy friend of my Dad's in a bar and got really, really, really drunk

and the old guy - my Dad's friend - said I could run for President, and he would do all the work, so I did, and about 2 years later I sobered up and I found myself in the White House with all these like straight ass guys in this big office telling me what to do, and then I go off to like Florida to read this great book with some kids and then some guys said a big plane like, crashed in NYC, so I asked the old guy what to do and like, he said "I'll take care of it" but like he didn't really and later I found out he was beating up all these guys in like these torture chambers and stuff...

Basically it sucked, but I'm trying not to think about it too much.

Bring me a beer...

[Pierre.Suave]

13. Hasnt everybody?

:shrug:

[cherish44]

15. I said "I do"

What the hell was I thinking????

[Xipe Totec]

17. Did you mean it?

If so, where is the problem?

:shrug: