If you liked 2 1/2-months-to-New-Year’s-Resolutions Resolutions (which has been updated again, of late), then you will love Oh.! And not just because it is a proper noun with built-in punctuation. I’m completely crazy about that stuff.
Number 15 could be me.
“I always make this mistake.
When I start a new job I hold off asking questions for just too long.
Just untill it will be really embarrassing to ask the question and it will revile that I have just been guessing untill now [sic].”
It’s not me, though. That’s someone else’s mistake, set free.
When I think about a mistake that I have made from which I’d like to be set free and from which someone else could learn, I’m like, “how much time have you got? I feel like, “where, oh where to begin.” But the point is: mistakes are meant to be made. Oh. liberates the mistake makers by casting them out there on the internet “for all to see and learn.”
The first lesson: everybody screws up.
The second lesson: to err is not to fail.
I appreciate Number 1.
“Here’s my mistake:
I accidentally sent my cv to an ex-boyfriend while sending out work applications.
Just a blank email which my cv attached to it.
. . . to which he driely [sic] replied, “oh, you’ve been up to a lot.”
The ex-boyfriend? Probably didn’t know that he received an email that had been mistakenly sent. I like to imagine him, nostalgic, reflecting for a moment and thinking, “man, maybe I made a mistake when I gave her up.”
Oh. is part experiment in honesty and part community blog. The spelling mistakes in each entry give it a performance art effect, too.
Thanks to Mackin Ink via Design Crush.
December 6, 2008 at 11:09 AM
-thanks for the sweet words! hope you send in your mistakes!
December 8, 2008 at 10:29 PM
My favorite today is Number 16 –
“I care what people think about me….When really it’s none of my business what other people think!!!”