... you could undo one mistake in life?

Everyone does mistakes in life because humans are not perfect. Some mistakes arent`t that bad but others create big problems. So what if you had the possibility to undo one single mistake in your life directly after you made it? 

The possibility to undo one mistake in your life would not really be an opportunity. I think that it would actually be a restriction. Mistakes are part of our daily life and there is a wide range of mistakes. There are small ones like forgetting your lunch at home or spilling water and there are big ones like loosing your phone or being late at a job interview. Also, some mistakes only affect you while others have an impact on more people. Basically you can`t really categorize mistakes because every mistake is different. The variety is huge and there is no general judgment criteria. This makes it really hard to choose which mistake you want to undo. I believe if people would have the chance to undo one mistake they would constantly overthink their mistakes just to make the right decision and undo the worst one. It would drive people crazy to only have the chance once.

 Also in my opinion mistakes are necessary and not always as bad as they seem to be. By doing mistakes we learn because usually you don`t do a mistake twice. Mistakes are a kind of experience that make us wiser like all experiences. And sometimes mistakes actually offer us a new chance.To take up the example from the beginning imagine you come late to a job interview because you accidentally woke up to late. You were preparing for this interview quite a while because this job is a great opportunity for you. Of course now your chance are really low to get the job because many people aspire this job. Disappointed at yourself you can`t perform as good as you would like to and you end up with a rejection. It seems like this one mistake destroyed your whole future and probably you would give everything at that moment to undo it. But life goes on and suprisingly you find another really good job employment ad and this on sounds actually better than the first one. Because of your bad experience in the past you set your alarm on the right time and you make it in time to interview. This time you feel way better during the interview and you end up with getting the job. 

With this short example shows that you never know what the result of a mistake can be. Sometimes things go wrong, and we feel like everything is destroyed but there is always a new opportunity that comes with every mistake. There is not only one way to your goal, life offers us so many different options to achieve what we want we just have to open our eyes. If we get the opportunity to undo one mistake we would always analyze our mistakes instead of looking forward. We would be stuck in the past, and we wouldn`t be able to recognize what life actually offers us.

This is why I think the possibility to undo one mistake would restricted us. So don`t overthink your mistakes what happened, happened. Keep your eyes open and try to understand that there is no only one way in life. Trust that everything will be fine in the end!