What Are The Odds…

…of you?

Remember your first “Birds and Bees” class at school?

I remember a lot of diagrams, labels, and vocabulary, but one thing really struck me…

The unbelievable odds that I existed.

According to my science class that day, for me to exist, the timing had to be perfect; millions of other combinations could have happened, potentially making many different people instead of me.

I was in complete amazement that I had been born. I had literally won the lottery of living.

Remembering this recently, I asked AI…

What are the odds of your parents creating you? The response was…

“The odds of your parents creating you are astronomically small, often estimated to be in the range of one in billions or even one in trillions due to the vast number of potential sperm and egg combinations, coupled with the complex factors involved in conception and successful pregnancy, making your existence statistically highly improbable.” 

And yet here we are, experiencing the “highly improbable.”

Then consider how, throughout history, the timing had to be set for each ancestor to meet down through the ages, for you to have even the improbable chance of being here.

On a bad day, remember…

We beat the odds!  

Maybe it will help us be more grateful? 

Maybe it will help us be more forgiving?

Maybe it will help us look at other humans with more reverence and respect?

Maybe it will inspire us to do great and courageous things?

How am I spending this incredible gift? 

Cheers to your life today! You truly are one in a billion, or one in an infinite number of possibilities!