Error Review

You know what’s cool about my job? Usually, when you make an error, you get this review the next day. The review says “Hey, you made this error, and I want to make sure you meant to. If you didn’t mean to make this error, then you should do this to fix it, before this policy is permanently messed up.” I think that’s very polite and helpful. Also, when you delete a policy transaction it gives you a choice “Are you sure you’d like to delete this? If so, do this.” When you close a word document it says “Would you like to save this before you close it?”

Wouldn’t it be great if life were like this? If, when you make a mistake or a bad choice, you could simply get a review the next day… “Yesterday you chose to say this or do this or behave in conduct unbecoming of yourself. Did you really mean what you said or did? If not, please do this to fix it before your life is completely fucked” and then there would be this great remedy which would make everything better. Same if you’d like to delete a behavior… “Are you sure you want to get rid of this certain behavior? If so, do this.” Or if something happened and you were ready to close that part of your life… if it was something good or something you should remember for a lesson you’d have the opportunity to save… or if it was something you’d just prefer not to remember… as if it never happened, you could just close without saving the changes to your life...

It might be hard at first, deciding what to delete, what to keep… but I think we’d get good at it and we’d all be better people… wouldn’t we?

Or… do we need to make those mistakes and suffer the consequences so that we can learn from them and make better choices the next time?