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Mistakes

June 12, 2021 by Adam Mazek

As long as people act irrational, make mistakes, make bad choices, we are people of flesh and blood with all our virtues and, above all, faults.

Adam Mazek Photography Warsaw 2020. Post: "Mistakes." Minimalism. Street lamp. The eye.
Adam Mazek Photography Warsaw 2020. Post: "Mistakes." Minimalism.
Adam Mazek Photography Warsaw 2020. Post: "Mistakes." Minimalism. Road.

For many years I was blaming myself for not being perfect. I always used to aim to be 100% efficient and excellent in many aspects of my life. I was mad and angry when I got to know that I had done something imperfect. Moreover, I was angry with myself because I made mistakes in many aspects of my life, starting from personal experience, high school, studies, and my accountancy job. In the meantime, I began to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Thanks to a famous Russian writer, I started to feel relief that I am not perfect. In Dostoyevsky’s short novel named „Notes from Underground,” we can read that thanks to the fact that we are imperfect, we do not make rational decisions, we sometimes make mistakes, and that we make destructive behaviors, we are humans.

When an ideal android will be created, which will always behave rationally, and it will not make mistakes, for me, it will symbolically mean the end of humanity as we know it for millennia.

Indeed, creating perfect humans would be a disaster for human civilization. Is it possible to create a humanoid creature that will be infallible? No. I do not believe it. I am convinced that we, by being imperfect, cannot make something that is flawless. Moreover, deep in our mind, psyche, heart, and soul, we also never reach a state of perfectionism. People will always tend to make wrong calculations, forecasts, and predictions. Thus, luckily, we will never become perfect humans. I do believe that becoming an ideal human is an aimless activity. Is that mean that we should stop trying to become perfect? No. I believe that the crucial fact (maybe it is the sense of life?) of becoming a superhero is a process of development, not the aim.

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