This is for your birthday as well. They are not my words, but they echo my thoughts and wishes for you and for myself. I love you and I've been grateful for the opportunity to make mistakes with you and also to be successful at some things.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
--Neil Gaimon
I feel like you are good at doing this anyway, but I hope you will continue and will always be improving (not necessarily at making mistakes but just at pushing boundaries).
Love, this lady
