When Black doesn't haunt!

If after reading the title you thought that this article was related to Halloween or ghosts, then you would perhaps be mistaken.

In fact, this is just an incident that unveiled the irony of notions around black and made me realize the power of mistakes.

There was a competition for which registration had to be done through Microsoft forms. While filling the form they asked for a particular social media ID that I didn’t have. So, I just filled it up with random letters to see what was on the next page. And then by mistake I ended up submitting the form that carried all my wrong information. I really wanted to participate in that competition but it allowed only one response per person.

I felt very guilty for such a stupid mistake and started wondering how such a mistake could be done?

Turns out that mistakes are the only thing other than your achievements that help you grow. Sometimes we must lose in order to gain because some lessons are best learnt through pain.

So at that time I was not able to digest that I could have done something so silly and I started making very lame excuses like,” It was the form’s mistake that it got auto-submitted”.

I realised that I was a very weak person because I could not carry the guilt that accompanies oneself when one makes a mistake. Likewise, if you start blaming others you feel angry for other’s fault.

That moment I finally understood why they say that we should see a mistake as just a mistake. Not as his/her mistake. “MY” brings guilt so heavy and “HIS/HER” brings anger so dangerous. Only “MISTAKE” brings realisation and possible improvement.

And from that day I started following a BLACK principle. This black does not refer to a dark event or evil but refers to a person evolving as:

B – big enough to admit mistakes

L – lionhearted enough to correct them

A – alive enough to take another challenge

C – confident enough to not give up

K – keen enough to find my weaknesses