Evolution

Evolution is an interesting concept…it doesn’t mean the evolving of one organism into completely different one all at once. But it has the implication that one thing progressively changes towards something else little by little. Like a metamorphoses or mutation (mutation doesn’t have a negative connotation even though that is what people normally associated with the term) from a caterpillar into a butterfly. While that is a more drastic change, most evolutionary changes are very minute and fairly unnoticeable until there are enough of them to be seen. I don’t believe the evolutionary theory on the scale Darwin had it but it really makes one think about how we evolve in the various aspects of our lives.

I had always viewed my life in a futuristic tense where all these wonderful things were going to happen in the far off distance, marriage, a house, children of my own…all sometime later...like in 3-4 years. First it was when I am in my 20’s…then it was when I finish college. Now, 25 and finished with college, I still feel that way; like I am still waiting for my life to happen, but I am also rational enough to think…if not now…when? From that, I have realized that while I have worked towards those things, I have given them the unrealistic expectation that they are just going to fall in my lap and thus not capitalized on my life. Life is short, the last 10 years have seemed like moments and it isn’t getting any better.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not running out to buy a house or anything but I am going to work harder then ever to achieve more in my life. Not just the big things like buying the house, however those goals are there, but the little things that we don’t normally focus on as well. A better job, getting out of debt having the things I want, marriage, and even a house are all newly evaluated. Just where to place them? Which lends the question…where is my evolution taking me…yep I am now a monkey <_<