To Blunder

Today’s inspiration is drawn from the act of Blundering.

Blunder (n/v): a careless mistake; to act or speak clumsily

Sometimes it happens. You put your foot in your mouth; you miss an important detail that derails your project, or your budget, or your opportunity to make a smooth first impression.
You then might spend the next few minutes, hours, days, berating yourself – how could I have been so careless! How did I not see that!!

And life goes on.

To blunder, to make mistakes, is how we learn. To glean a shard of feedback from these experiences, to take a moment of reflection to assess the situation, is what being human is all about.

Lewis Thomas, in Lives of a Cell, wrote:
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

So today, start or continue onward with a commitment to let yourself blunder – and rather than blame or judge or do any of the antics that keep you small, savor it – what good came from this lovely mistake?

We need more of your music in the world.