Wow, it takes courage to admit one's mistakes. But the road to redeeming one self is acceptance, thus accepting we made a mistake and we need to change. I learned a lot from this article. Mistakes are opportunities. Rather than saying bad things about people who made mistakes, I would rather encourage them not to be too hard on themselves as we all make mistakes, rather I will tell them to look in the futre and to learn from thier mistakes. Thank you for writing this.