The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
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