Dear Queenie,
I’m an honest person who works hard, pays their bills and love my family and friends. I’m not stupid and I have an advanced university degree to prove it, but sometimes I make bad choices and it’s so embarrassing that I just want to curl up and die as they say.
Queenie, how can I learn to do better?—Dumbbell
Dear Dumbbell,
Making mistakes does not make you a dumbbell, it just means you are a normal (imperfect) human being. Everyone, even geniuses, makes a mistake now and then.
The trick to doing better is not dying of embarrassment, but looking straight at a mistake or poor choice, figuring out where you went wrong, and remembering it (without embarrassment!!) so that next time in similar circumstances you can – and will – do better.
