You Shouldn’t Be Alive
The Odds of You Existing Are Basically Zero — So What Are You Going to Do With Your Life?
Let’s Start With the Math
The odds of you existing have been calculated by Dr. Ali Binazir.
Just starting from your parents, the chance of them meeting and creating you is astronomically slim. First, your parents have to meet, then stay together long enough to reproduce, then conceive you at the exact right time so that the right egg drops (your mother has 100,000 in her lifetime), then the right sperm must make it in (your father produces 4 trillion during the years you could be born). So beginning with your folks, your odds of you being born come out to 1 in 400,000,000,000,000,000 or 1 in 4 quadrillion.
But when we take it back throughout all the unbroken generations of life, then to the formation of the earth, then the development of the galaxy, then the universe being created from the Big Bang, your odds have now been reduced to 1 in 10 followed by 2,685,000 zeroes.
Dr. Binazir puts it this way:
“It is the probability of 2 million people getting together each to play a game of dice with trillion-sided dice. They each roll the dice and they all come up with the exact same number — for example, 550,343,279,001.”— Dr. Ali Binazir
So basically, you shouldn’t be alive.
Now What Are You Going to Do?
We might not all like the cards we were dealt in life, but it is our choice to play what we’ve been given or to go on blaming our lot — which is wanting more power, but giving up any power we already have.
The fact is, you have a monumentally better chance of becoming anybody you want to be than of even being at all.
By all accounts, you shouldn’t even be here.
Marcus Aurelius offers wisdom on how to use this fact.
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
You are living a life you should mathematically not have ever had. There is no reason not to be bold, to throw yourself at life with vigor every single day.
And worry and fear? Why? If you shouldn’t even be here, then what is the point of worrying? It’s maddening to see people worry so much. It’s like winning a free ticket to the the best party in the world. Just go have some fucking fun!
You have the rarest of chances in the universe — to experience what life feels like. I hope you use your chance well.
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This article is Day 29 of the 30-Day Fishbowl Series
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