All Men Make Mistakes

“Think: all men make mistakes

But a good man yeilds when he

Knows his course is wrong,

And repairs the evil: The only

Crime is pride."

I think this passage means that yes, we make mistakes, but if we take the time to think before we have the opportunity to make the mistake, we will be left with pride in the decision we made. While reading through this writing there are a couple of examples that come to mind, one big one is soccer. When you play soccer yes, you make lots of mistakes, but it’s how you recover from these mistakes that make you the player you are. “when he know his course is wrong, and repairs the evil” is like taking the time to think about the pass you are making or the tackle you are going into before you do it. By taking the time, you don’t make the mistake and your team keeps possession of the ball leaving you with pride of a well-played game.

The word choice in this quotation I feel has a lot of impact on the meaning. By using words like evil and crime, it makes it seem like it’s not just everyday mistakes like forgetting to turn off your car lights but something big like committing a crime. Also the word yield made me stop and think. By using yield it makes me think that this man is very apprehensive about this wrong he is thinking about doing. For me I thought about a yellow light which you are supposed to yield to, but does he yield or does he speed through before the light quickly changes to red? One thing I don’t really understand is why the quote ends with the only crime is pride, it makes it seem like you can’t go wrong when you choose to stay away from the mistake, but that completely wrong. There are hundreds of cases where a mistake came out to be fantastic. For example chocolate chips were a mistake, and where would life be today if we didn’t have chocolate chips?

 

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