The mistakes that stay with you are the ones that showed you something about yourself you didn't want to know. The decision made for the wrong reason. The thing said in a moment that revealed what was underneath. The choice that seemed small and turned out not to be.

These are hard to say out loud because saying them requires admitting the full version — not the edited one where you were under pressure, or didn't know better, or were going through something. The unedited version where you just did the thing.

Anonymous thoughts about mistakes posted here can be the full version. No one here knows your name. The void doesn't edit for you.