In “A Mistake that Should Last a Lifetime,” by Jessanne Collins argues that we should learn to deal with our mistakes, live with regrets, and know we can’t change our permanent situations. The narrator made a decision that made her live with a long regret. She tattooed her left wrist with a phrase that said, “Break to keep fixing.” She made a mistake because she was nervous and told the tattoo artist she was ready when she really wasn’t. Her simple tattoo led to a long time of regret. The main of this story are the following words; mistakes, regrets, and permanent. She state, that the only reason she had waiting until she was 25 years old was because she had fear of regretting what she had done again. First of all, the word “permanent” is a main point of this story. No one truly understands how much the word permanent means until they experience it and can’t change back what they did. This narrator had permanently tattooed her left wrist and unfortunately, this tattoo got messed up. In the text she says, “Spooked that I hadn’t noticed this until it was too late, I read that four-word phrase for a solid hour, waiting for a spelling error to materialize.” She made a small mistake that she regretted throughout her life. She just couldn’t learn to love it. Second of all, regret is another main point to this story. As teens especially, there are so many …show more content…
The narrator had made a decision that made her live with a long regret. She tattooed her left wrist with a phrase that said, “Break to keep fixing.” She had messed up because she was nervous and told the artist she was ready when she really wasn’t. Her simple spelling mistake led to a long time of regret. The main points to this story are permanent, regret, and mistakes. She states that the only reason she had waiting until she was 25 years old was because, she had fear of regretting again what she had done. At the end, she learned to love her beautiful