The Very Unlikely Miracle That You Are Alive
There is a 1:400.000.000.000.000 probability of us being born.
If you are curious and want to learn more - then check out this video with Mel Robbins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrud67lA68 Repeating 1:400.000.000.000.000 probability of you being born. How incredible is that?
I believe that each of us is here for a reason. Not in the sense that the Universe has some master-grand-plan designed for us. Not in the sense that every single thing happens for a reason.
All though I would like to think that some things do. There is no reason behind the pain, suffering and the systems and experiences causing it. The only thing we can take from our pain is to appreciate, when it is not there.
We can learn how to manage the pain, but never eliminate it completely. We live. We love. We laugh. We cry. We suffer. Life is filled with meaning. What that meaning is depends on who you ask. I see the meaning in life as everything we put into the world. Most importantly in the relationships we have with other people. It is in those relationships we create connections. It is there that we use our empathy. It is there that we co-exist with other beings on this planet. Whether they are human or animal.
In my perspective the meaning of life is to exist and co-exist. It is to share moments with other people and create our own meaning in what we spend our time on. For most people that meaning exists in their career, family life and social life. Our lives become meaningful when we spend our time on things that give it meaning. Whether these be activities or interactions. They vary from person to person. My point is that through the mere unlikely probability of our existence we are meaningful.
I think death only has meaning, because there was a life preceeding it. Death gets meaning in the life that was lived. In the moments shared with other people. In the memories. In the energy. In the existence. We are here. Maybe by randomness. But one thing is sure - we are supposed to be here.
We are supposed to exist in the very short span of time that we get. We are here for a reason. Whatever that reason may be, all of us will leave this world having impacted it in one way or another. We will have loved, lost, laughed, cried, yelled and simply lived. We will have shared something with the world, whether it be moments, thoughts, services, products or whatever we offered to the world in the time we had.
Life is immensely short. That fact is incredibly scary. It is heart-breaking that we have to live through the loss of loved ones. Loss that seems meaningless, because why do some people live, while others die. Life is hard. Life is unfair. But life is also beautiful in both the pain and the pleasure, the suffering and the connection, the love and the loss.
If we did not love - we would not experience pain. If we did not love - we would not experience pleasure. There is so much love in the world. So much more than we realise. I am incredibly grateful for each moment I get and each moment I will have. For each moment I have shared with another person and hopefully will share in the future. The thing about the future is that I do not know. I simply do not know if I will exist tomorrow.
So I can only really be grateful about today.
What are you grateful for?