Why You Need to Own Your Errors

Thought for the Week “Admit your mistakes,” is hardly the motto of our current culture. If anything, it’s the opposite. Being exposed for having ever been anything other than what one claims to be can mark the end of a career, or even, tragically, a life. Suicide, which is at an all-time high, is more-often-than-not, […]

Why You Need to Own Your Errors

My thoughts on this post that I like so much I am lending my platform

I have a gift for being teachable.  It is ok to correct me.  People will say this sort of thing, but they do not mean it.  Often, they do not know they do not mean it. “Just tell me if you have a problem with me.” I am a person who believes people mean the words they say and I do not automatically consider other aspects of speech that give meaning, like context, tone, or a person’s history.  People got really mad at me when I obediently set about correcting them.

No one got as angry as I did, however. For me, to say I made a mistake was almost a form of rejection. A mistake morphed into I AM wrong, from, I did something wrong.  I fought to defend my positions, opinions, and actions with all the determination of someone who does not want to be cast out of the group.

I do not remember how the epiphany came to me. It is said there was only one perfect person. To say I am never wrong is like saying my peer group is me–and Jesus. Such out of control grandiosity was too much for even me–a person full of pride and devoted to image.  The idea developed into a further realization that since all people are flawed, making a mistake is not what separates me, but what makes me  human. There’s no getting rid of me!

I still care about image. But my concerns are not rooted in thr desire to look or be flawless and beyond questioning.  What I want people to see is someone open to correction so I can make yhe necessary changes.

Overcoming fear of Driving in Hawaii–of course I can sell real estate!

I spent 20 years on the bus.  I never imagined I would drive. It was not even a goal.  But after having to turn down yet another job, it occurred to me that what seemed impossible might be an illusion.  Now look:

This is my car less than three years after passing my road test.

The things that can happen are bigger than I can conceptualize.  Bigger than being a real estate mogul? Of course! How so? I don’t know! That’s the beauty of this type of dream deferred! It doesn’t wither but grows without bounds!

Hawaii: no law regulating compassionate release for dying inmates. Linked article

People argue that dying inmates should have the chance to be released.  Some say it costs the state too much to care for terminally ill inmates. My guess is, if these people are released, they won’t have any resources, so it is likely the state will still foot the bill for care, minus the cost of guards, etc.

Some say it will be nice for families to have their loved one back before the end.  Maybe so, maybe not.  Perhaps families will be burdened with a relative with whom they have had no meaningful connection. The situations vary case by case, obviously.

For me, it comes down to the crime. Society has never feared terminally ill, bed-bound people. Recidivism, or the impossibility of reoffending is not the issue. People who have committed heinous acts were meant to die in prison, away from family. That would be the point of, say, a 150-year sentence.  Too many people are imprisoned for foolishness.

I am all for compassion, unless the sentence was imposed for the express purpose of not extending any.

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I was SO Excited sbout this info: Fannie Mae’s ‘Expanded Housing Choice’ Initiative Extends to All Eligible Jurisdictions Nationwide, Includes New Enhancements | Fannie Mae…UNTIL I WAS NOT EXCITED

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Whenever I see articles that appear to address the needs of people with housing, I jump on them.  Important stuff, right?  Why do the authors make the articles difficult to understand? The above linked article, for example, is full of jargon.  Jargon is a form of language that is typical to a certain industry.  Even if outsiders know the individual words, they do not know them used in that wat.  Jargon is like formalized slang for an industry.  If you want to be understood by people who are not housing professionals, you would use clear, simple language.  As few words as possible.  But no!  An article that is, presumably, supposed to help people obtain what they need, forms a discouraging barrier to info.  Are they required to publicize this news, but they don’t truly want people to know how to get housing that has been wrongfully withheld. Or am I just being paranoid?

I know oe from life experience that people with low incomes might qualify for section 8 vouchers. The government pays most of the rent for apartments that are in the community.  Instead of putting low income people in one spot, or “project,” people are anonymously living all over the place.

The problem has been that landlords do not want to rent to low-income people.  I have no opinion that I am expressing here.  I will say that one landlord told me they do not rent to Section 8 people because the housing comes too easily to them and they do not value it. Landlords say their places get trashed by people who have an “easy come, easy go attitude.” So I have heard.

I thought the linked storu would tell me how this perception is being handled.  As of now, 30% of people who qualify for these “vouchers” can’t find anyone to rent to them. 30%!  That’s huge.

Please read the article and give an opinion. They do not explain why people can’t get housing and the proposed solution, the way I believe I just did.  Am I missing the clarity? Or is it that people do not want low-income people to have the info they need to live anywhere?

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