Graduates cheer as paralyzed student walks to get degree with robotic exoskelton

[Numenorean]

Do you ever switch lanes without signaling prior to the change in lanes?

No because that's a pet peeve of mine and I freaking HATE when people don't use their signals.

 

[destrekor]

Or made a turn without signaling. Or sped. Or tailgated. Or driven while tired, angry, or distracted. We all, inadvertently or not, risk the lives of those around us all the time. It's a risk we take by getting out of bed and going outside every day--that at any given moment, someone might be doing something that could kill us. When I sit back and look at the vast array of stupid things I've done just in my own life, I'm amazed I've made it this far without dying.

This kid obviously learned from his mistake (which, while it COULD have hurt someone other than himself, did not). Kudos to him.

Most of us, I'd argue, have likely made some serious mistakes. Not necessarily mistake after mistake, but many of us have probably made a terrible error or bad decision or whatever, and if the timing had been any different, we could have been in a worse spot. Either someone else or I have made a mistake before that, in terms of chance, had been way too close for comfort. If we, as humans, don't feel the wrath of error and chaos, well... I would say we tend to learn better when we barely avoided death or serious injury. If we escape unscathed, we may have learned something, but it is likely that lesson isn't nearly as in-depth and informative as it could have been since only your nerves got rattled and not your actual brain.

We learn from error. Unfortunately, the luck of odds and chaos tend to describe a world that not everyone even gets an opportunity to learn from an error, or sometimes errors are so minimal or go unnoticed, that those who made the error never learned any lessons. Life is a bitch like that, and sometimes life throws a banana peel in your general path while you are looking elsewhere.