What Are The Odds…

…of you?

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

Of all the diagrams I had seen and all the new vocabulary, there was absolutely one thing that struck me.

According to my science class that day, for me to exist, the timing had to be perfect, and millions of other potential people were pushed out with no chance at living.

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 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.

Let’s remember this on a bad day, or during an embarrassing experience, or in a heated moment.

We beat the odds!  

Maybe it will make us more grateful? 

Maybe it will make us more forgiving?

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!