The Ordinary Miracle of Existing

Each of us has won an almost incomprehensible lottery — out of a hundred thousand billion possible human beings that could have resulted from our conception, only one combination led to you. Against the vastness of space and time, individual existence is extraordinarily rare and improbable. Rather than taking life for granted, this realization calls for deep gratitude, responsibility to live meaningfully, and reverence for the miracle of simply being alive.