Hidden Failures

I've witnessed in my own life and in the lives of my loved ones a tendency to cover up failures.  Not that we should broadcast every slight misstep, but when I find myself in a largely regretful situation, I scramble to fix things or manipulate the situation as if something I do in the future could erase what was done in the past.

The fact of the matter is that the best thing to do is to shine a big huge spotlight onto the mess that has become my reality.  It's painful and shameful and counter intuitive.  But it is at this point under to bright light when I acknowledge that it is actually something that was done for me in the past that erases all my failures in the future.