We harp on holiday cheer and holiday blahs - these are the conditions we create year round! Lets find our special sauce that creates a better day - every day!
I decide, this is not for me, and steer my life away from a painful experience. Did I learn a truth, or create my own injury and write a story? Perhaps learning is truly colorless.
There are no mistakes. We do what we do because there seems to be no alternative. Living life involves falling down many such times and rising again. How can your politicians be valued much higher, instead of treating them like they are criminals for having lived a life of learning?