The Good "Mistake!"

I was talking to a friend who told me that she and her family were going on a cruise. She then proceeded to tell me that the cruise line had upgraded one of the rooms, and that no one in their party had been informed. As it turns out, the room that had been upgraded was the one with all the kids in it. This wasn’t going to work. The adults couldn’t possibly be so far away from the children.

When the cruise line was told of their mistake, they upgraded the whole group. The upgrades, by the way, included a balcony in each room!

This got me to thinking about so-called “mistakes.” Are they really mistakes? Possibly not. Let’s face it, we don’t know much! We cannot predict the future, nor can we really know what is a mistake, or in reality, a stroke of luck, or divine intervention.

Often times, when something “bad” happens, we immediately label it as a mistake without truly knowing if whether what’s happened is in our best interest or not.

Obviously, my friend’s family initially thought that the children being so far removed was a terrible mistake. But as it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened.

So let’s not be too quick to judge something as a mistake. Let the dust settle before making your observation. And even then, you still don’t really know, do you?