Your Odds Of Being Alive

According to my research (a VERY brief Google search), a miracle is:

• a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences.

More on that later. First, let’s talk about you.

Specifically, the odds that you’re even a thing.

In a 2011 Tedx Talk, self-help author Mel Robbins announced that the odds of being born are one in 400 trillion.

Dr. Ali Binazir, who works at Harvard and has degrees from Berekeley and Cambridge, was in the audience in 2011,

He calculated the odds of your parents meeting, given the sheer volume of humans on Earth at any given time. Then he considered the chances of them having a child. Because that wasn’t enough, he also factored in the odds of your ancestors meeting.

His conclusion: “The odds that you exist at all are basically zero.”

If that doesn’t boggle your noggin’, here’s a story that highlights just how unlikely your existence is by comparing it to this chain of events:

Imagine there was one life preserver thrown somewhere…