The History of my Evolution Part 1
Written by Krystal Gray, Tuesday June 22 2010
"Natural selection acts to preserve and accumulate minor advantageous genetic mutations. Suppose a member of a species developed a functional advantage (it grew wings and learned to fly). Its offspring would inherit that advantage and pass it on to their offspring. The inferior (disadvantaged) members of the same species would gradually die out, leaving only the superior (advantaged) members of the species. Natural selection is the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild. Natural selection is the naturalistic equivalent to domestic breeding. Over the centuries, human breeders have produced dramatic changes in domestic animal populations by selecting individuals to breed. Breeders eliminate undesirable traits gradually over time. Similarly, natural selection eliminates inferior species gradually over time. "
"You can do anything in this world your heart desires," My mom would tell me. “Don’t ever let anyone or anything tell you that you can't, because you can and you will to prove them wrong." My dad would tell me. I am so thankful from a young age my parents would repeat these sentences to me over and over. Sometimes remembering those words I feel so powerful. I feel the sky lifted off my shoulders & I feel like it is truly possible to accomplish anything in this world my heart desires. "One foot in front of the other, learn to walk before you run," Dad would say to me.
My mom lit a fire in my heart from a young age to do something bigger with my life and my Dad taught me how to make my own fuel eating up all the energy around me to keep things going. They produced an internal fire in me. A fire needs three things in order to remain burning: Fuel, oxygen and heat. My fuel was and is the energy around me, Good and bad morphed into my desire. My Oxygen has always been athletics primarily football and my heat source is my Father in heaven & my family, friends & fans.
Clearly there have been circumstances throughout the times I've played football and in life where I felt like I was suffocating for air, or I have been consumed with passion and desire. It's at those moments that I realize I have been seriously blessed with a trait I sometimes don't understand and have had trouble controlling. The best way to describe it is getting up when you’re knocked down, and breathing when your suffocating is not an option. It just happens. It’s something you just do. You don't think about it. You just become weightless and it just happens. It's like a baby bird the first time they fall out of the nest. Their natural instinct just kicks in and there wings just start to flutter keeping them alive or they hit the ground and their life is suddenly over.
Mentally I have always refused to be the bird that just hits the ground without a fight to stay in flight. Physically I've always been blessed with the ability to overcome the fall and spiritually my emotions have always been taken care of. Sometimes it’s a hard hit, a big fall and a slow burn but It's not the times we fall that count. All it takes is that one time that we stand back up that everyone else refuses to that sets us apart. All it takes is one more step to see the view at the top of the mountain we have been climbing. All it takes is a leap of faith to grow those wings. It's knowing every step you take along the way has a purpose & a direction.
"Natural selection is the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild." There is nothing more wild then life, or football. ""Natural selection acts to preserve and accumulate minor advantageous genetic mutations." Sometimes we have to just give it all we can, no matter how many falls or tries it takes in order to know if we are one of the ones who have the ability to preserve those minor advantageous genetic mutations. I like to think that every time I breathe when I'm about to suffocate, or get back up when I've been knocked down as preserving those traits my son will need to see in order to survive in this cold world & in his sport life.
My relationships with Life & with football are simultaneous. They teach me about one another & the more I learn the more I love the pain they both put me through because with standing up comes the realization that I'm slowly but surely surviving natural selection. In my mind all I'm competing with is myself & as long as the fire my parents started never goes out I'll keep on challenging myself to accomplish anything I desire. At the end of the game & at the end of the day all we can do is try. Trying is the hunger but the part that keeps me surviving, that's the continuous internal gratification of self victory following all those internal defeats. My parents, football & life, they passed their traits to me: Never give up. Take what you want.
~KG~
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