USA: The Book Was Titled - ' About the Error'

. PORTLAND, Maine / TimeGoesBy.net / The Elder Storytelling Place / July 7, 2009 The Right Book at the Right Time (A True Story) By Heinrich von Bünau Ten years ago I was in a kind of life crisis. I had just come back to my hometown and did not know how to go on. So I did - nothing! After a while, several people who knew me and perhaps wanted to help me, criticized me very severely for this inactivity! They were Christians like me and in their view, I had started to live an idle and godless life. I felt wrongly accused and reacted angrily as a result. I got frustrated and at last, sadly thought: "Why don't they understand my situation? Why don't they see that I need more time?" At that time, I sometimes went to the university to read a little bit in the big library. So one afternoon I had just passed the entrance when I suddenly heard the laughing voice of a young woman: "To err is human!" Obviously she hadn`t said that to me, but I felt deeply touched by these words. A little bit irritated, I walked on to my favorite place in that library. Suddenly, a funny thought came in my mind: "Why not take first a walk through the library!" I do not know why, but I gave in that thought and started to walk aimlessly and "blindly" through the corridors. At last I suddenly stopped in front of a book shelf and took a book out of it. I really had not expected much from it, but now I read with surprise its title, About the Error. The next two hours I spent reading this book. It became very clear to me that being mistaken is part of our human nature. And has to happen - "naturally"! Naturally this was not a new thought to me, but in my situation it was a "revelation" to me. Now I felt comforted and was able to forgive my critics. They had been mistaken, but they had acted – humanly. [rc] © 2009 Ronni Bennett