Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "making-mistakes"

If your perception doesn’t evolve with time,
It’s not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.

In one of my early works I called America,
“a great country, built by great people,”
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.

I once naively asked to ‘appreciate the soldiers’,
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, “military is legal terrorism.”

Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.

No literature is infallible, but while errors in scientific literature are proudly mended by later scientists, errors in religious literature are rarely mended – they are interpreted, reinterpreted, and justified in a million ways, but never questioned, as very few persons of faith have got the brain and backbone to acknowledge errors, let alone correct them – this is not holiness, it’s blindness most primitive.

Reverence without revision isn’t sanctity, it’s stagnation – and stagnation might feel honorous, but it leads to devolution. Just because it’s habit doesn’t make it holy – admission of error is the beginning of enlightenment.