I think that when I’ve royally screwed up something, I start feeling tired and want to go hide under the covers in my bed. The tired part could be from the initial beating myself up for not doing something perfect or not pleasing someone that I dearly care about. My expectations of myself seem to be that I should be able to do everything…perfectly…without missing a beat – no exceptions. Yeah, I know, very realistic expectations. I would never expect that of anyone else or even have a tiny urge to flog them if what they did wasn’t perfect, but there you have it.
So, I’ve been working on changing this little (ok, maybe gi-normous is more apt) cycle.
1. Admit that I’ve screwed up…no judgment, no flogging, no berating
2. Decide if it is a correctable mistake or just one that should be learned from – again, …no judgment, no flogging, no berating
3. Move on! This is a very very important one so I’ll repeat it.
4. Move on!
Note: None of the above steps should involve a cat-o-nine-tails. Avoid all temptations leading to this course of action.
As a side note, a goal for this week is to “speak my truth and censor later”, although I will attempt decent grammar during the process (don’t expect perfect grammar). You can see details in the Monday Morning Musings . I’ve posted a comment pertaining to my “make today unforgettable” this week.
How to relay this to knitting? Some knitters deliberately create a mistake in their work to show that it was done by human hands. I’m actually ok with allowing a mistake into my knitting rather than ripping back 10 rows just to correct an error only I'll probably see anyway.
(Savasana pose picture)