Does your mistakes define you as a person?

We should never define or judge a person from the mistakes that he/she committed from the past. What is important is that she learned a lot from those mistakes and she's/he's now a changed and better person.

I’ve made mistakes in my life time and sadly it is those who are closest to me who still use them to define me as a person despite having changed a lot since I made those mistakes many years ago. In fact those mistakes have made me a better person by learning from them. The annoying thing is that there is little you can to do about it, if someone wants to define you by something in your past you can’t stop them. You can ask them why they choose to and ask them not to but you have no control. And fighting fire with fire by pointing out there mistakes achieves little other than putting you down to their level. The only thing you can do is to try and rise above it all and show to everyone who isn’t so petty that you are a changed person and through this the narrow mindedness of those who chose to remind you and gossip will be made to look fools.

I pretty much take people as I find them. If they want me to know about their past they will tell me. But I don't make friends very fast either. My life has brought me into contact with many different people some from very bad places, but I always feel if I can touch these people and bring just a little light into their lives I've done what I can do. We all make mistakes in life and if things had turned out just a little different, I also could have been in jail or worse so it is no hardship for me to look beyond whatever has happened in the past. My son and I had this conversation about Hitler and I told him I didn't feel able to judge him, because there was no way I knew what made him do what he did. Of course there is also no circumstance that I can think of that forgive him either. But I do believe in Karma and am willing to leave the bad and ugly that people do to higher powers then we humans control.

The past gives a great impact or scar in our personality. But I believed in the Holy book, we are all created with goodness within ourselves. God created us from HIS form,and goodness is always in us. Not even those prisoners should be judged. Thu, we still need to have some extra care dealing with them. I always believed that a person can always changed from he/she is from the past. When someone is determined to changed and forget the past,it is possible. And the society and people around him/her gives a great contribution for that changes as well. Let's give them a chance.As I want people to give me a chance to prove that first impression is not always right. have a great weekend ahead

In a sense, mistakes can define a person. Of course, how a person deals with said mistakes is a good indicator of how they will be defined. If they are someone who doesn't learn from their mistakes or tries to run away from their mistakes without properly dealing with them, then they will not be defined in a good way. That just proves that they are not brave enough to deal with some of the pressures that can define a person in life. However, a person can be defined well, with their mistakes only being afterthoughts, if they deal with them. Defined rather well as someone who can step up and triumph over adversity. No matter what cost, they will never completely give up. Mistakes are going to be made, we are only human but in general, it doesn't matter. How we deal with said mistakes is the true measure of a person.

We all made mistakes and lose some friends in the past, but I don't think those mistakes with our ex-friends should be use to define us as a person. We sure have learned a lot of lessons from our bad behaviors, bad decisions and all other things we never realize at the time is a mistake. No one has the right to judge any one if a person has done something wrong in the past, same as not judging people who strip in the club to send her siblings to school and feed their family. We don't really know why they have committed such mistakes and for sure all of us will never want to do the same mistakes we have done before.

Of course I would approach each situation differently. But for the most part I don't feel our mistakes should define who we are. However if it is a mistake that keeps happening maybe the person should be defined by that mistake. Sometimes people know they have made a mistake but continue to repeat the pattern.

I don't really judge a person by his past mistakes not unless he still doing the same mistake in his present life. But if he is already a reformed person, i will give him a chance, after all,no one in this world is sinless.

The only people to be careful about are those who have committed serious crimes.With others who have erred in the past we can't be their best friends but we can give them a chance to rectify their erroneous ways.We can be friends with those who have committed errors in the past.The criminal justice system is wary of bunching repeated offenders with first time or petty offenders as they might be influenced by the habitual offenders to commit serious crimes.This is the reason why I am apprehensive of those who have committed serious crime.

I don't really think that it is a bad thing to let the mistakes that you've made in your life define who you are as a person. That is, if you were able to look at the mistakes that you've made and use those as learning points for the way that we go on with our lives. I know that I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, but the end result of those mistakes is that I make positive changes in my life because of them.

Everybody has a past to remember and we shall not unfriend them because of that. All of us make mistakes just that we are lucky not to be caught, or mistakes ain't as serious to land us behind the bars. Whatever it is, we should not judge anybody from their mistakes, it's not fair to them. One's past makes a better person for the future.

Who are we to judge a person based on his past . We know that people do mistakes in the past , but that one might have given them a lesson already . I for one , will still be friends with a person despite his past . What is important is at present he is already reformed .

We should never define a person through mistakes,I guess everyone of us committed mistakes.What is important is to learn from it.To stand after we fall.

I consider all things. But I'm forgiving overall. I admit, though, that I might be more cautious around someone with a really checkered past.

I think it does define a lot, I mean I changed so much of what I was because of the mistakes I did, just have to be careful to not let fear of making mistakes to stop us.

it is really a pity that if we just judge a person by his mistakes once committed before. And we all should understand one fact that we humans could make mistakes, so to claim mistakes is not horrible but worse to not to learn from what you have done and change it to better and right. We should give the person who once committed crime but change to be a good guy a chance to prove that he or she has changed from bad to good. without changes to be given, those persons could commit crime again just for having no place to live. In order to build a harmonious society, all of us should be kind and show our mercy to those who once made mistakes.

Well we are also humans and we need to understand every one of us or just put yourself on the shoes of that person. I will be nice to anyone especially if he has a criminal record, but will hold also to my instinct. Sometimes we can smell if the person has the intention to do some bad things to us or not. I will be nice but will have some doubts too just like a balance scale. I am in the middle.