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I recently watched The Cosmos (an amazing mini series discussing the origins of the universe available on Netflix). I've always been interested in astronomy since early childhood and could never find answers to questions like: where does the universe end? Watching this series did not answer that question, but it helped articulate very difficult concepts to comprehend. For the purist scientist you may think its a little too dumbed down, but it helps when trying to understand the time frame of our origins.
If you put the entire existence of the known cosmos on a one year timeline....meaning january 1st being the birth of our entire universe, then it is not until december 31st just a few hours before the big apple drops that human beings came on the scene. In those last few 'hours' before today, every human who ever walked this earth existed, every god or religion to have ever been spoken of existed in those moments, not a single being on any other floating rock has ever been aware of our existence nor have we any knowledge of any other living world. If you take the time to understand this, and better yet go watch the series, because I certainly cannot do it justice in a paragraph, you will understand where luck falls in place.
In short, we are all lucky to exist. The miracle of life is that it exists at all. I agree with the partying in Tijuana example given above....we are capable of making good choices, beyond that, we are all just shooting stars.
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