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Every Person Is A Moving Pile of Mistakes. As humans we are bound to make mistakes and will continue to make mistakes.
What concerns me is those who make mistakes yet find it difficult to forgive others when they make mistakes. I also believe strongly in giving a person another chance to prove what he did was in fact a mistake. A mistake is a poorly made decision or a decision made with incomplete information, but more often a mistake is exercise of our emotions and instincts without enough calculation of the consequences.
A good example is a decent person who had more than a couple of drinks, and he thinks he can drive safely home as he did before. All of the sudden he is involved in a car accident. Depending on the consequences of the accident, his future and all his past achievement are now hanging. Another mistake is a person who happens to be in charge of money that is not well-looked after. He can be weak for some reason or another and steal part of that money. No doubt this is a crime punishable by the law, but the person, especially if he is young, has lost his future because of this mistake which he paid for by way of prison time and having to refund the money.
The question is, will the society give him a chance to start all over again ? Is there any way he can clean his records if he is really sorry about it and deeply regretted it ? People who deserve a second chance are not always distinguishable from repeat offenders and this is what makes me worried. How can we balance our respect for the law and our desire to give good people who made a mistake a second chance ? This is the question.
I am not aware of any legal system that takes into consideration a person’s standing and previous record when making a judgment on a violation of the law. I do understand that each case stands on it’s own merits, but I also do sympathize with some one who realized he has just made a mistake which he never did before and he immediately regretted it, but the consequences are so deep that he may have to lose his future or even his life.
No one is in a better position of giving a second chance more than a person who himself has made a serious mistake that he was saved by God who cut short the consequences or saved by someone who forgave him. Hamad S Alomar
