Mistakes

I was nearly done editing my latest novel when I noticed that I’d written Chapter 4 twice.  I’d read through the entire manuscript twice, but it took until the very end for me to notice such a gaffe.  So now instead of twenty-eight chapters plus an epilogue, I have thirty chapters.  Ha-ha.  That was a minor mistake, and easily corrected, but life is full of mistakes both large and small.  Sometimes you break the bank, and other times a mistake is quickly forgotten.  You move on and you’re past it in five minutes.  Mistakes can change over time and become something good—and other times it literally takes years to recover from a seemingly-innocent miscalculation.  It can be difficult to tell the difference upon first glance, because so much of life is lived in shades of gray.