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[MichelleLT]

The scars are the healed. Just like in real life, there's always a mark to show the wound. It scabs, it breaks open again, it finally heals, but it's never quite the same no matter how much of that anti-scar lotion stuff you use lol.

You will always look back down at the scar on your knee and remember how you got it. But you will also be more careful next time.

It's kind of like riding a bike (motorcycle or just pedal-powered), you slack on the maintenance a little bit, you procrastinate on replacing the brakes, and then you're out riding and you hit a slick spot and the brakes just aren't good enough to save you from physics. You walk away, but that scar will always remind you to take the time to do the maintenance you need to do.

Lessons learned.

It's not a blame thing. Before, you didn't know better. You did the best you could with the knowledge you had.

Now, you've learned. Not only from the WAS, but from the boards and from MWD's books. Now you are armed with loads of information and you realize how you f'd up. You have moved from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. The journey is about moving to conscious competence and then finally unconscious competence (so that these R skills you learn become habit).

All of us here are somewhere between conscious incompetence and conscious competence. We are students. We are learning. We are practicing. We are not perfect. We are just human.