Learn from Your Mistakes

   To me and in a not scientific point of view the word "evolution" has a rather positive conotation. Evolution often gives the impresion of improvement and the action of bettering in whatever way possible by undergoing some kind of transformation. Even in Pokemon when a pokemon "evolves" it transforms into a stronger, bigger and in that case, cooler pokemon. On the other hand, a mistake is by definition a bad, wrong thing that should not have happened and thats why it is a mistake. If this path of logic is right, then in what way is evolution a mistake?


    When evolution happens it doesn't come premeditated or planned, it just happens because an imperfection, just like a mistake, and in this logic it makes perfect sense, that evolution is a mistakes. However the most facinating part of evolution is the outcome and in parralel, regarding the mistake, consequence. The "evolution" we know about is the one of the stupid, unrefined monkey and how it was carefully molded, sculped and crafted into the beautiful, perfect being we are today and if some of the consequences that come from my mistakes were as good as this I would be much more of a screw up. That leaves the other kinds of evolution, like the things that we call malformations, diseases, shames and other names. When in meoisis an extra cromosone is produced it is by no doubt a mistake as much as the evolution of the monkey was, however the outcome is very different. A son with Down syndrome is not "better", it's not an "improvement", at least not how we see it, but it's still evolution. Even saying that a retarded kid is evoution sounds incredibly wrong, however it is, that is if we follow the given logic and explanation of evolution.


     In that case the question remaining is why have we evolved for the good, why has evolution, for the most part, have improved us? Then it would seem reasonable that the mistakes are just the consequences of some mistakes that result in unfortunate mistakes like a child with Down syndrome. Then are we mistakes that mistakenly become a consequence that is not a mistake. As a teenager with existencialist problems, like many others, this has not been a soothing exercise, so...am I a mistake?