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Mistakes we're judged by

Sometimes we're caught in the middle of something and it winds up looking worse than what actually happened. I'm thinking about several events in my life where I was able to actually explain what happened, getting pulled over for speeding and explaining the circumstances; having a late assignment and again letting the teacher know that you tried to turn it in on time but couldn't and several others.  On the other hand, there are some instances where I had no excuse. I think back to a fight in 5th grade. I was riding bikes with my best friend and out of nowhere I just pushed a guy off his bike. It was an evenly matched fight - 2 on 2, or as they saw it one on one. I don't know what made my push that guy, probably machismo but I did it and they saw it and I have no excuses. And I'm to this day judged by that mistake.  I never make claims to be a perfect person, but I did somewhere expect that with education would come wisdom, this "common sense" thing that h...
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Waiting for the question

 I have been reading a lot. Like a lot a lot. Like the most in my life a lot. That should be expected of me since I'm a PhD. So you'd expect that I'd be reading things like articles, books, novels, publications, drafts, newsletters, editorials, and all that fancy stuff to keep me afloat. But what about tweets and messages and emails and Bible verses and all that stuff that doesn't make it into the sent version of the messages, do those count as reading? I'm thinking about this stuff because as a counter to reading I'm thinking about who I can talk to about my questions about my reading. I used to think that the answer was noone and that was a lonely place. What I feel now is a bit better, but it just takes some time and patience. A lot of time and a lot of patience.  It's hard to explain what I'm saying so I'll try to give an example of what I'm trying to say. The old testament of the Bible talks about the period before Jesus came to the Earth. I...
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