What If...

At some point or the other, everyone makes mistakes....and then you learn from them and move on. That is the nature of things, but what if making that mistake was something you couldn't afford, because the consequences were things you couldn't bear. What then?? What if making those mistakes were necessary for you to learn a very important lesson in life, would it then be alright for us to commit such errors? And what about those people who get affected by these mistakes that we make, what do we tell them?? Usually we commit an error unknowingly, yet we have to suffer the consequences, can't we be forgiven as we were unaware of what the mistake would lead us to? But life is a bitch, and people love to remind you how true this statement is. Unfortunately people have reminded me this way too often. Yet I go on trying to forget what happened and to look forward to the future, yet somehow i can't stop wondering.....what if I didn't commit certain errors. Would my life be any different, but I can only ponder.......what if...