Just A Reminder

[Adam F]

The simple fact that you are here to read these words is a mind-boggling stroke of luck. The chances of your ever existing were so tiny as to be almost insignificant.

Think about it for a moment. You are the product of the combination of one particular sperm with one particular egg. You probably already know that there were two hundred million other sperm competing at that particular moment for the particular egg that produced you. And that if any of them won the race rather than you, you would never have existed.

But that is just one in a long string of lucky breaks that led to your birth. What if your parents had decided not to make love on the particular night of your conception and rather, had waited for a few weeks until after your mother’s period? What if they had never met? What if you’re mother became sick during pregnancy, causing her to miscarry?

What if your grandmother had done so when she was pregnant with your mother? What if the social gathering that your great-great grandparents met at had been cancelled due to bad weather? What if your great-great-great-great grandfather had decided not to migrate to the country where he met his wife and had children?

You would never have existed.

When you look back at the history leading up to your birth, the amount of chance encounters and lucky breaks are astonishing. Each of your ancestors had to conceive at exactly the right point, at exactly the right time, using exactly the right sperm and exactly the right egg, with exactly the right partner. All this took place across the long, chaotic and bloody history of humanity; through wars, epidemics, floods, droughts, famine and pestilence, your ancestors kept meeting up and conceiving. Depending on your view of how we came to be on this planet in the first place, this went on for at least tens of thousands, and possibly millions or billions of years.

The chances of you winning the lottery one hundred times in a row are greater than those of you ever being born. And yet, here you are.

So anyways just a reminder on how lucky we are to be here.

~Adam

[Gator_Mclusky]

Awesome Post!!!!!!!!!

[Reverend Satan]

You call it luck I call it something else.