Are you a liar when you make a mistake by accident?

While I congratulated my sister for her birthday through a text, I didn’t reread my message I wrote to her. And I made a mistake about a little fact she already knows.

I was a little bit embarrassed because it says something I didn’t want to say: a mistake about a fact. I didn’t do this on purpose, it was a mistake by accident. That embarrassed me a lot. It embarrassed me because of a fact we both knew it was wrong while I should know I had to write it correctly. I don’t have that much contact with her, but the fact that I had to reread my messages for the correct fact is bothering me too much.

It’s bothering me for not being correct. Now it seems I lied about facts, while I'm not a liar. Now I am asking myself if I am a liar — which I am not, but doubting myself about that fact too — that’s what I tell myself all the time now. I'm thinking about it a lot. Others could see it that way, at least I think, I tell myself all the time. I deeply know it isn't true after all, because people make mistake all the time. But in this society, the media and people around us makes us believe that making mistakes isn’t appropriate. Because when you make mistakes, you're not perfect at all and when you're not perfect, then you're a failure in everything. That is what will be seen and that is what all those social media — and not only social media, also newspapers and magazines will do believe us we are not perfect.

But what is perfect? That is different for each person. For me, for you, for my children. I am asking myself if perfectness really exists!?

Is it true that you’re a liar when you make a mistake about an important fact you already know you made that mistake by accident? For someone else could it seem that you make this mistake on purpose? They don’t know when you made this mistake by accident and other people could possibly think you did this on purpose to mislead them. And I have to guess with my sister but I could imagine that if she thinks that.

Answering the question I asked myself if you're a liar when you make a mistake by accident? For me, I am not, or someone else is not when you just explain your mistake to someone else. That is a fact. And it is the other person doing something with that particular information.

And it doesn’t take that much time to reread your messages. That is something I learn from it.