You and I are the lucky ones because we are going to die

You and I are the lucky ones because we are going to die

You and I are the lucky ones because we are going to die.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been standing in my place but who will never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara — more, the atoms in the universe. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Donne, greater scientists than Newton, greater geniuses than DaVinci, greater warriors than Alexander the Great, greater artists than Michelangelo, and greater composers than Beethoven. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I that are privileged to be here, privileged with eyes to see where we are and brains to wonder why.

(Michael Michalko author of Creative Thinkering (Putting Your Imagination to Work)

One response to this post.

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