the second chance

For me, the second chance means make something better and better than before, not do the same mistakes in it. The second chance doesn’t mean anything if I learned nothing from the first one.  

I think, three words that can reflect about the second chance are; mistake, opportunity and be thankful. Let me explain to you.

Mistake. 

Everybody does mistake. Even nobody’s perfect is the quotes that frequently we hear to show how we often as human do the mistakes. Second chance never appears without mistake. Even Albert Einstein said this. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake at least others can learn from.  We need to learn from our mistakes so that we do not run the risk of repeating them. We must develop the wisdom and sense to make good decisions and choices. Good judgment will only develop if you truly learn from your mistakes. Unfortunately, for many people, it takes a few repeats of the same mistake to learn the lesson. Good or bad, experiences are what help us learn lessons and form a better sense of judgment. Bad judgment seems to stick with us longer as a lesson learned because we really do not want to keep repeating it. Wisdom is the knowledge you can gain from making mistakes.

Opportunity.

English meaning of second chance is opportunity to try something again. When you "get the opportunity" to do something, it means that you are allowed to do something that you think is good. An "opportunity" is usually something that you want to do to improve yourself, like something related to work, or to an activity that you like doing such as sports or music. Yes, we need that opportunity to do the second chance.

And last, why is thankful? 

Sometimes I don’t think that something is precious until I lost it. I’ve ever lost something then I realized that it is precious to me. I hope I have a second chance to make it back. Well, I got it. I’m very happy.   Having a second chance makes I want to work even harder. I will keep that thing because I don’t lose it again for the second time. Yes, I am thankful that I had a second chance.

Well, this topic I choose because I have my own experience about the second chance. It is one of histories of my life. It is my work, my career. I decided resign at Toyota Astra Motor in 1998 for one reason but I couldn’t tell you here what the reason is. Hehehe. That decision surprises some people. Why I resigned for that huge company then I applied to Plaza Toyota. Maybe some people think that working at TAM is very prestigious and it was ridiculous to resign from there and move to indirect dealer at that time. But that my decision. Well, on this occasion I want to say thanks to Mr. Parman and Mr. Jumhan,  who believed and finally accepted me in Plaza Toyota. I think work at Plaza Toyota is my second chance. That’s why I want to proof that I really appreciate that opportunity and be thankful that I am here, at Plaza Toyota.

I think everything deserve to have a second chance. Even it is our life. How so? Yes that we can not turn back the time being a baby, child, adult but we have a generation that we call children. Giving them the best that we can, direct them to be the best with what they want so we can do our second chance through our children. For example, I really want to study at ITB but I didn’t have opportunity to do that.  I wish my son will. Maybe not me who study in ITB but my generation does. But again, I will not push my son to do that if he doesn’t want it. Because I remember this quote from beautiful poem from Kahlil Gibran about our children; you may give them your love but not your thoughts, because they have their own thoughts.

Well, Hopefully. All people here including me, if we have the opportunity for having second chance, we never waste it so we can not regret.The most important life lessons we will ever learn will be from the bad decisions we make. Time and experience can be excellent teachers when you actually learn a lesson from your poor decisions.

 I ever read this maybe can reflect more clear about the second chance;

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don’t.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it.

Jakarta, 23 Oktober 2013

by Uranium