{"id":135,"date":"2026-08-31T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:11:55","slug":"learning-from-your-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Learning from your mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The saying goes you don&#8217;t make the same mistake twice. I disagree. I have made some mistakes multiple times and still keep making them. You might consider this careless and maybe it is but I consider it part of who I am. Not sure where this fits into the current status other than it&#8217;s currently a thought inside my head.<\/p>\n<p>More on topic, I can&#8217;t believe a week has gone by since my plan to focus on less and be more focused on what matters. Honestly last week there were times I felt I was making this change and other times I really didn&#8217;t. Well, as another week begins I intend to keep trying. It feels like the right thing to do although counter intuitive to my usual way.<\/p>\n<p>In other, more directly related to my upcoming treatment and less my ramblings. I have an MRI coming up. At first I thought nothing of it. I&#8217;ve had them before and I expect more in the future &#8211; although how will be interesting. This one is going to be different as they will use it to program where they intend to target the 1.5mm grain of rice inside my head. More important for me, I will be given a sedative to keep me from moving. ( I really need to stop watching TV shows where someone is sedated, kidnapped and wakes up in a rather unfortunate situation. ) So, not my usual pop along, wait, scan, home. It is pretty much going to be the whole day, plus some preparation time on getting there and back, and mental preparation for however they will administer the sedative. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely comfortable with injections. It&#8217;s not the injection, or the needle, or blood, or pain. It&#8217;s just the process I think I dislike. As I have said many times before, this is the bit they will be best at so I have no need to worry but some how it still haunts me. I suppose I should treat this as a new experience and so nothing to compare it with and so nothing to fear.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s enough negativity for now. I&#8217;m off to repeat a mistake while experiencing the consequence of another.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saying goes you don&#8217;t make the same mistake twice. I disagree. I have made some mistakes multiple times and still keep making them. You might consider this careless and maybe it is but I consider it part of who I am. Not sure where this fits into the current status other than it&#8217;s currently<em class=\"excrpt-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/?p=135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning from your mistakes<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}