Imagine if your mother married someone else.
Would you be here reading this right now?
Then that might mean your father may have ended up with someone else as well.
Now if they both, separately, had a single child with their alternate spouses, which one do you think you'd be? As in, would you come into existence as your mother's child, or your father's?
The answer is neither. You are only you- the unique, specific combination of your own mother and your own father, which has happened and most likely will only happen once in the entire history of the universe. Now you may say I would have been my mother's daughter even if she married someone else,
wrong, it wouldn't be You. You, as you right now, would not exist!
Now think of your two sets of grandparents. Imagine if just one of them ended up with a different spouse. Would you be here reading this right now?
Nope.
Now imagine that long, very specific lineage of couples that had to come together, generation after generation after generation after generation. If this exact, specific sequence of coupling, dating back to the beginning of man, did not pair up exactly in the way that they did, you would not be here. Imagine, out of all those people, thousands of generations of couples, just one of them ended up with another spouse, then you would not exist. You would be nothing. (State your name here) _____ would Not be, right here, right now, sitting here, reading these words. Try to imagine that alternative as reality for a moment.
Now go outside, enjoy a deep breath of fresh air and give thanks to the millions of opportunities and events that had to occur specifically as they did over the past couple million years in order for you to merely exist. Some gratitude is in order whether it's for God, fate, beautiful random accidents in the universe, or some combination of all of the above. It's a beautiful thing once you realize the magnitude of probabilities that were stacked against the favor of your existence.
But here you are, right here, right now.
Let this be a reminder, that everything is as it should be, just for you.
Would you be here reading this right now?
Then that might mean your father may have ended up with someone else as well.
Now if they both, separately, had a single child with their alternate spouses, which one do you think you'd be? As in, would you come into existence as your mother's child, or your father's?
The answer is neither. You are only you- the unique, specific combination of your own mother and your own father, which has happened and most likely will only happen once in the entire history of the universe. Now you may say I would have been my mother's daughter even if she married someone else,
wrong, it wouldn't be You. You, as you right now, would not exist!
Now think of your two sets of grandparents. Imagine if just one of them ended up with a different spouse. Would you be here reading this right now?
Nope.
Now imagine that long, very specific lineage of couples that had to come together, generation after generation after generation after generation. If this exact, specific sequence of coupling, dating back to the beginning of man, did not pair up exactly in the way that they did, you would not be here. Imagine, out of all those people, thousands of generations of couples, just one of them ended up with another spouse, then you would not exist. You would be nothing. (State your name here) _____ would Not be, right here, right now, sitting here, reading these words. Try to imagine that alternative as reality for a moment.
Now go outside, enjoy a deep breath of fresh air and give thanks to the millions of opportunities and events that had to occur specifically as they did over the past couple million years in order for you to merely exist. Some gratitude is in order whether it's for God, fate, beautiful random accidents in the universe, or some combination of all of the above. It's a beautiful thing once you realize the magnitude of probabilities that were stacked against the favor of your existence.
But here you are, right here, right now.
Let this be a reminder, that everything is as it should be, just for you.
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