Flawed

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions - Augusten Burroughs

We all make mistakes I think. What makes some mistakes bigger or weightier than others are the implications and consequences that follow. Take for example a technician who is in charge of switching off all the computers and locking up, maybe one day he slips up, leaves the computers running over night, over weekend. The consequence? Runs up a greater bill.

Compare it with a pharmacist, who’s responsible for carefully weighing out the medicine before tabulating and formulating and giving it to the patient, a single decimal error, an incorrectly calibrated scale, and the wrong dosage is given. Consequence? Patient dies from overdose even though he followed the instructions to the letter.

Both of these are mistakes, both human errors that could happen to anyone. But the result of such error, the price one has to pay for making a mistake, it differs.

Nobody is perfect they say; we all make mistakes. But sometimes, just sometimes, the price we have to pay for our mistake is just too much.