Don't encourage blindness

I would like to know why people, almost 3.8 thousand years later, still practice the Hammurabi’s code, which establishes “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Haven’t they figured out that no society will ever improve under this rule?
            I guess they don’t know yet that they don’t gain anything by doing it. If they were smart enough, they would realize that it is better for them, as individuals, not to take revenge. Could you imagine what would happen to the world if the entire population – about 7 billion people – takes revenge every time something happens to them? It would create a cycle that would end with even wars and death.
            If the world’s population somehow forgets about this absurd rule, the world would be a better place. Eventually, no one would harm others and half the problems of the world would be eradicated.

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Mahatma Gandhi

Make mistakes

The reason why I chose this week’s quote is because I think everyone goes through it in some point of their lives. Often, people feel bad or even sad when they make a mistake. Some of them cry, others try to separate from the world, and even there are those who quit trying. Most of them don’t realize that making mistakes is a human been characteristic. In fact, it is a very particular one for us because no one is perfect – even if some people think they are. 

By now you must be wondering yourself “how do I react when I make a mistake?” So I ask you, do you run and hide? Or do you face it? How would our lives be if Thomas Edison would have given up instead of trying six thousand times before making perfect the light bulb? Why to hide behind a window watching the landscape if we can be outside being part of it? 

I wish most of the people would face the consequences for their mistakes and learn from it. Because when you learn from it, you are not giving up, you keep going and growing.

“Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried something new.”

Albert Einstein