Finding order in randomness. Finding randomness in order.

The human brain is very complex, and some consider it perhaps the most complicated structure in the universe. I can understand why. It is an amazing piece of equipment. Barely a couple of kgs and capable of so much. However, it is not perfect. There is this idea that prevails even amongst smart and educated people that because something evolved to be a particular way it must be the best possible design. That is flawed thinking. Evolution does not work that way. Evolution is trial and error. Just because we evolved to walk upright doesn't mean that walking upright is the best thing. Just because our brain evolved to be the way it is now, doesn't mean that it is the best possible design for a brain. Evolution is always correcting. Billions of species of lifeforms have become extinct. They evolved in a certain direction and that didn't work out and they went bust. This flawed idea of evolution is very prevalent in the health sphere and the conclusions they draw are sometimes ...

I struggle with perfectionism. It causes me a lot of angst. I have this idea that to be happy i need to be perfect, things around me need to be perfect, my life needs to be perfect. But life isn't perfect, I am not perfect. Nothing is. I know this cognitively but this kind of thinking is not second nature to me - I tend to forget it at times and get drawn back into perfectionism. I have lot of defects, and that is ok. There is no point to life, it just is. There isn't even good and bad when it comes to life. I know it might sound controversial. But the result of any event in your life, the effects of it are happening over time for the rest of your life. So how can I judge something as good or bad if the results are not out yet? this is like the famous Toaist story . But we do that all the time. We judge events in our life as positive or negative. And if we perceive them as negative it causes us angst and suffering. If we judge them as positive it brings out joy and happine...