We Make Mistakes; We Move On
On the way back from Mammoth Mountain, on my freshmen trip, we stopped by Manzanar, which was once a Japanese internment camp and is now a museum that tells the story behind Manzanar. Inside the museum there was a plaque with a quote said by Clarence Darrow that read, “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”
What would the world be like if no man ever objected? What would happen if no one stood up for what they believe? And what would our world turn into to if everything were permanent?
Hitler would still be in heading the force of the Jewish Holocaust. Slavery would still be present all around the world. Japanese-American people would still be in internment camps. Males would still be sexist towards females. Our world would not be the same as it is today.
Good people sometimes make bad mistakes. But at the same time Bad people make bad mistakes, too. The difference between the two is that good people are able to acknowledge their mistakes and apologize and move forward from them. They are able to change and transform into a stronger and even better person. They grow from their mistakes. But, bad people do not understand what they did wrong and are not able to comprehend that they made a mistake.
People take the ability to move forward for granted. The world would be very different if people were not able to forgive and forget. The human race is a truly amazing species and will always be making mistakes and because people stand up against these mistakes we are continually progressing as a united world.
PROPOSITION: The human race continually progresses as it makes mistakes, and because of the ability to grow from the mistakes made we will prevail through anything we are faced with.
