Every loss and heartbreak contains a lesson

"It's ok to make mistakes," Umehara always said. "But don't make the same mistake twice."

Think of Wily Coyote.

Cartoon after cartoon, doom after doom. 1st run and repeats make no difference. The Roadrunner isn't such a genius. He's fast, but he would've been stomped, crushed or even eaten long ago if the Coyote had learned and applied just one damned thing from his mistakes.

Though we shouldn't dwell on defeats, losses or heartbreaks, I think we will do well to study them, consider every angle from every perspective. I always try to analyse how or why I failed and what I can do to prevent the same conclusion from recurring.