What Will Happen After We Make The Inevitable Mistakes Analysis

Mistakes are inevitable. There’s no sugar-coating it or avoiding it since it’s inescapable. In life if there’s one thing that is certain, apart from death and taxes that is, it’s that no matter how hard you try or how noble your intentions may be, you’re going to make mistakes, and as a result hurt others and yourself. It’s merely human to and isn’t that what we are?
So what does happen after we make the inevitable mistakes we do? For all our justifications of making mistakes because we’re human, I think that where we differ is with the choices we make after we falter. There’re some who feel so ashamed by the hurt we caused others as result of our own actions that they fall in the downward spiralling cycle of self-loathing and guilt that they’re doomed to repeat them. On the other hand there’re some of us who use the regret of hurting others as a catalyst and opportunity to grow and change into someone better and hopefully “make better mistakes tomorrow”
That our DNA is set in stone. Unchangeable. But thing is, there’re a lot of things that DNA doesn’t account for and that’s life itself. Life changes us. We develop new trades. We learn from our mistakes. We face our greatest fears. For better or worse. We find ways to change our biology.
I’m a huge fan of TED talks and writings and on a night of browsing through them like any other I came across the writings of Daniel Reisel, a London based neuroscientist. In his work Rewriting Our Morality he writes: “Experience cannot alter the genetic code, but it can alter the way it is expressed. That is because there are numerous molecular switches that control when genes are turned on and off at various stages of life. Growing evidence suggests that what we experience – in the womb, as children, and throughout life – leaves an imprint on the so called epigenome. Everything we experience can help determine which genes are active and which say